Angel's Choice

By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

All I remember is the sensation of things slipping away from me....

In one night Angel Hansen's life changes forever: She has sex for the first time. Not that she remembers the act itself -- not the pain or the pleasure. But she is left with something that will never let her forget it: an unplanned pregnancy. Angel must make a choice. Abortion? Adoption? Keep it? None of these choices are easy and none of them are perfect. But there is one thing Angel is sure of. Whatever choice she makes, it must be the right one for her. Braced with that knowledge, Angel faces the toughest decision of her life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Release date: Dec 15, 2009
• ISBN: 9781442408463

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Lauren Baratz-Logsted has written books for all ages. Her books for children and young adults include the Sisters Eight series, The Education of Bet and Crazy Beautiful. She lives with her family in Danbury, Connecticut.

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September

Week of September 3/Week 1

IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF schooling together, we are seniors now, this will be our last year in high school. From the day school starts, right after Labor Day, it is like we are all on a collision course with the future, riding high on a wave of energy, and living loud.

Seniors! someone shouts nearly every day, pounding the lockers as whoever is doing the shouting runs down the hallway. Seniors!

Sometimes it seems as though Tim O’Mara is shouting louder than anybody. Sometimes it seems as though every time I walk down a hall, there’s Tim O’Mara, shouting, SENIORS!

We have not said a word to each other since the night of Ricky D’Amico’s party. At the time I didn’t expect him to call me—after all, he never even asked for my number. But as the days have piled up, I’ve been surprised that no call has come. I guess a part of me thought that Tim O’Mara, who has never been known to have a regular girlfriend, might take our one night together as an excuse to try to turn it into something more. Weird. Even though I have no interest in him in that way whatsoever, that part of me that half-expected a call, that part that had rehearsed in my mind how to let him down gently, is kind of hurt that the call never

Reviews for Angel's Choice

[mjspear_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This novel is a thinly-veiled treatise on the right to life, at any cost (even Yale). Improbable tale of teenaged Angel becoming pregnant on her first night of sex. She considers, then rejects, abortion; opting instead to keep the baby. Her best friend (and true love) Danny while not the father stands by her -- even attending Lamaze lessons (yikes) Her parents, incongruously, support her decision (nevermind Yale and all that good stuff). The father of the baby is painted as a blackheart for suggesting the abortion. Other classmates are carboard-thin characters. Most useful, one guesses, as a pregnancy guide, and thorough description of visiting an abortion clinic.