Hanging on to Max
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deceiving book. It looks like a short, quick read. And maybe for someone less touched by adoption, it really might have been. But it was a hard read for me. I kept wanting to reach into the story and hold Sam.
This review is from: Hanging Onto Max (Hardcover)
Sam Pettigrew is a senior in high school. And he has a baby. Yes-a baby. His girlfriend got pregnant the previous year, decided that she couldnt handle raising the baby, and Sam felt a need to raise his son. Now, Sams going to an alternative high school and juggling classes, college hopesand baby Max. The mix only gets tougher when he meets Claire, a fellow teenage parent who Sam definitely has feelings for. Yet no matter what happens, Sam is determined to prove to the world that hes not a stupid teenage guy and that he CAN hang on to Max.
Like I said, this is definitely a book that needed to be written and needs to be read. Many of us at some point or another have read the typical “pregnant teenage girl” novels and they certainly offer valuable perspectives. Yet it seems that we rarely come into contact with novels that explore a MALEs feelings about the issue. “Hanging Onto Max” definitely corrects this problem.
But “Hanging Onto Max” is more than just a mediocre novel with a rarely-done perspective- its main character is just as memorable as the content. I literally checked this book out from the library, read the first page, and raced through the novel until I finished it.