No More Saturday Nights

by Norma Klein

Book Overview

Seventeen-year-old Tim discovers that his former girlfriend is pregnant, and rather than putting the child up for adoption, he takes on the responsibility of parenting. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449703045
• ISBN13: 9780449703045
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

How I wish Norma Klein were still around...

Joel is a high school senior with a scholarship to Columbia. Cheryl, a girl he'd been sleeping with (but not necessarily dating), ends up pregnant and decides to give the baby up for adoption (but actually, she's selling it, what a nice girl). Joel steps in and decides he wants to raise the baby by himself while still going to college. Not bad. It paints a fairly decent picture of what having a newborn/young baby around is like. Maybe it would've been different if I read this as a teen, but the mom in me kept cringing every time he thought something awful about the baby. I think she could've gone into more description about how hard it was for Joel alone in NYC with an infant, but overall I'd give her an A-. This book should probably be required reading for every teenaged boy who's out there doing things with consequences he probably can't handle, or wouldn't want to handle. (I say for boys, because most other teen pregnancy books are from the girl's point of view, and they can go read those. ) I preferred other Klein books over this (and why are the fathers in her stories all the same? You could take one out of one book, plop him down right in the middle of another, and the plot would go on like nothing happened), such as Beginner's Love, but overall, this was okay.

*No More Saturday Nights*

This book was very inspiritng to me. It tought me to wait until i was ready before i started a family. It also showed me that hard work, and a loving family will always be here to help you through any thing, that tries to block your road. I would defiently recommend this book to other people, either young or old at age. It tells alot about the struggle of life, and how to overcome your fears

My Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World!!!!!!

This book was sooooo good. In fact it was so good I can't even believe that I read it. Anyone that has not read this book yet has not lived life the way it was meant to be. The scenes are shocking and mocking, without a lot of talking!!!!! You are not considered cool inless you've read this.

Adolescent decides to raise kid on his own.

An adolescent (Tim) decides to raise his kid on his own when he hears that his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl) wants to sell (she calls it adoption) the mutual kid to some strangers. Tim, however, is moving out of town and and has to take his baby with him.Norma Klein presents in this book the story of Tim who has to overcome many obstacles because of his decision to keep his baby.Mrs Klein succeeds in guiding the reader into Tim's perspective. As the reading goes on one will understand Tim better.I think that Mrs Klein did a great job writing a book about such a subject. Not only is it an adolescent who decides to raise his kid but it is a boy. I think that Mrs Klein proved with this book that it is not a matter of who raises the kid but it is matter of the will to raise the kid.I would recommend everyone to read this book. This book is simply great. Once you start reading books from Norma Klein, you will not be able to stop reading them.

It was a blend of humor, romance and reality.

I was pleased when when reading this book, to find a reality to it. People often forget that even when a teenager gets in trouble, they're not always looking for the easy way out. I thought it had an interesting ending. At first I thought it was missing a few pages, but it left me making my own ending...