Hanging on to Max

$9.59

Paperback
Author: Margaret Bechard
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publish Date: December 2003
Language: English
Reading Level: 3.3
EAN: 9780689862687

Overview

It’s Sam Pettigrew’s last year of high school. And he’s spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max.
Max wasn’t part of the plan. He wasn’t even part of the backup plan. But he’s here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone — his dad, his new girlfriend, himself — that he has what it takes to be a good dad.
Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding schedules, Sam gives fatherhood his best shot. Only no one told him it would be this hard. What if his best isn’t good enough?

Details

Pages: 208
Dimensions: 7.08 x 5.12 x 0.57 in
Lexile Score: 420
Interest Level: Upper Grade (UG)
Point Value: 5
ISBN: 0689862687

Awards

2006 Iowa Teen Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2004 Black-Eyed Susan Award - Winner (High School)
2003 Tayshas Reading - Commended (Young Adult)