The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir

Details:

Author: Gaby Rodriguez
Contributions by: Jenna Glatzer
Language: English
Reading Level: Grades 10 to 12
Pages: 218
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Size:

Weight: 0.4 Pounds
Length: 9 Inches
Width: 6 Inches
Height: 1 Inches

Synopsis:

As a daring school project, high school senior Gaby Rodriguez faked a pregnancy in order to explore how her family and community would treat her, despite her straight-As and bright future. Coming from a family with several teenaged mothers, including her own mother, Gaby felt that everyone assumed she would be headed down the same path. Keeping the truth from her entire family, Gaby shares her fascinating journey that captured the headlines and changed her life.

Publisher Notes:

"The true story of a high school senior whose faked pregnancy rocked her community and made international headlines. Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant asteenagers...from an outsider's perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn't include teen motherhood. But she wondered: How would she be treated if she "lived down" to others' expectations? Would everyone ignore the years she put into being a good student and see her as just another pregnant teen statistic with no future? These questions sparked Gaby's school project: faking her own pregnancy as a high school senior to see how her family, friends, and community would react. What she learned changed her life forever, and made international headlines in the process.In The Pregnancy Test, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy--hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend's parents--and what it was like to become an accidental overnight media sensation, trying to navigate a new world of film and book offers and talk show invitations while getting ready for the prom. But more than that, Gaby's story is about the power of stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself"--

Book Details Summary:

The title of this book is The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir and it was written by Gaby Rodriguez , Jenna Glatzer (Contributions by). This edition of The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is January 2012 and it has a suggested retail price of $17.99. There are 218 pages in the book and it was published by Simon & Schuster. The 10 digit ISBN is 1442446226 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781442446229.