What Kind of Love?: The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager

by Sheila Cole

Book Overview

In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. She and Peter were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem . . . Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380725754
• ISBN13: 9780380725755
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

What Kind Of Love?

What kind of Love was a story based on a teenage pregnancy, and the responsibilities she would have to face. In this book the main characters were Valerie, her boyfriend Peter, and her best friend Carrie. Peter and Valerie were together for six months when she found out she was pregnant. They were scared to tell their parents because they were still kid them selves. They had no choice but to tell them. When Valerie tells her parents, they reply by telling her she has to have an abortion. When Peter tells his mom she states she is going to send him away to live with his father so he won't see Valerie or the baby. According to my life, I can relate to Valerie's best friend Carrie. She is always giving Valerie good advice like I did when my aunt was pregnant. Carrie and I tell them, "It's not worth keeping the baby if the father left and you have no way to support the baby, unless if you get help." They wouldn't listen though. They think the father of the baby is going to come back for them. If the baby's father really liked you and was capable of being there for his child he would have never left. Valerie's boy friend Peter left without her knowing, but wrote to her when he got to his father's house in Chicago. I really enjoyed this book a whole lot. One of my favorite parts was when Peter had left because when she found out she paid it no mind. She didn't care because she thought Peter was coming back and that they were going to move in together. She also thought they were going to get married. I think it was really silly because you really can't get married without parental consent. My least favorite part was when Valerie actually found out Peter was playing games with her mind, he wasn't going to come back and she decided she was going to have the baby but put it up for adoption. I thought that was really depressing and emotional. It is hard to make decisions in a situation like this because you don't know if it would lead you the right or wrong way. If you are a teenager who thinks they're in love and want to have a baby I recommend this book to you. This book makes you think twice. When you say you love someone you may think you do but it can be a lie. Like Valerie stated in the book "When you love someone you want to make them happy, but it takes two to do it." When you get with a guy get to know that person real well because that guy may only want one thing from a girl, get you pregnant then leave you like a bump on a log. Then you would realize it was a mistake. A mistake that will change your life forever and wouldn't be able to erase it ever again.

GREAT BOOK TO READ!!!!

It's a great book to read for a teenager. It teaches you to about the consequences of not using protection. I guess that the book caught my attention because I wondered what would happen if I were in that position. The author's writing style makes you want to keep reading the book and look for more of her books. I give it five starts because it was interesting, exciting and kind of sad.

Loved it, loved it, loved it!

Even though i have no intentions on having a baby this book really shows how hard it is to have a baby and the changes and desisions you have to make when you are pregnant and even before pregnancy. the only bad part of the story is that there is no real ending and we dont' realy now how it finishes!

I think this book was excellent.

I can relate to many of the things that Valerie goes through. I would like to have read a sequel to this book, because I'd like to know how Valerie lives with knowing what she did. Once I picked this book up I could not put it down. My best friend saw me reading this book and she borrowed it from the library as soon as I finished reading and she, too, could not put it down. I would recommend this book to any young teenager because the story revolves around a young teenager. I think this book is the best book I have read in a long time.

A 15 year old girl finds herself pregnent.

This story Valerie, who had a sexual encounter and finds herself pregnent at the age of 15, if a wonderfully written story that tells the hardships that teens go through and what obstacles they have to overcome in life. I loved it!