Planet Pregnancy (p)

A young woman’s pregnancy makes her feel as though she’s living on another planet. For sixteen-year-old Sahara, everything depends on the color of a little stick. The stick turns pink, and Sahara’s life is changed in a heartbeat. Only last week, she was voted the Dixie Queen at school and wore a sequined gown and a tiara. Sahara faces her crisis alone, afraid to tell her mother, her sister, or her friends. After all, what would people in her small Texas town think of her? One thing’s for sure: she won’t tell Dustin, her total loser of an
ex-boyfriend. So Sahara keeps her pregnancy a secret as she struggles with three choices: “keep, give away, or lose.” With honesty and a touch of sardonic humor, this novel in free verse takes readers inside the mind of a young woman struggling to survive an alien world.
It’s September tenth and
I’m holding my breath,
because life
and death
and everything
in-between
depends
on a stick
dipped
for less than
ten seconds
in a dish
of pee.
—from the book