For sixteen-year-old Sahara, "life and death and everything in between" depends on the color of a little stick in this YALSA/ALAQuick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers. She waits three long minutes, praying to Jesus, Mary, and all the saints that the stick will turn blue, meaning she isn't pregnant. Instead, the stick turns pick and Sahara's life is changed in a heartbeat. Now she struggles with three choices: "keep, give away, or lose.""

 

There are 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Front Street Inc .

Linda Oatman High, author of "Beekeepers "and other books for children, lives in Narvon, Pennsylvania.