| Detour for Emmy (Hamilton High series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Marilyn Reynolds
Publisher: Morning Glory Press
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0930934768
EAN: 9780930934767
ASIN: 0930934768
Publication Date: July 1, 1993
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A selection of ALA Best Books for Young Adults, this novel tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who must face the consequences of becoming pregnant.
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 great read November 28, 2007
detour for emmy was a great book. i read it in jr high. and still remember it. i recomend this book to all teenage girls.
Detour for Emmy by Kally Vorbeck September 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all Emmy is a freshman in high school. She lives with her brother and her mother. Her brother is a drug attic who is always in rehad, well most the time. Emmy's mother is always out drinking. Shes only normal half the time. Well while Emmy is in school she meets a guy named Art. She finds out that he likes her too so they start dating. Emmy is constantly sneaks Art in and out of her house while her mother is out drinking. Art is a straight A student and has big plans to go to standford college. Also, Emmy had big plans of attending standford for her college education. Emmy and Art start partying with eachother and become closer and closer everyday. One night Emmy has sex with Art and don't really want to, but she does. Art always tells her that if she loved him she would do it. Art always trys pressuring her to have sex, so one night they have sex on a beach. Emmy forgets to use protection. After awhile, Emmy starts to feel sick and is throwing up often. So Emmy goes to the nurse at school. The nurses gives her a checkup and Emmy finds put that she is pregnant. Emmy is scared, confused, and dont know how to tell Art. So during choir, she trys to explain to him the problem. Art doesnt beileve her until she srarts crying and passes out. Emmy and Arts relationship starts falling apart from there. When Emmy told her mother, she was furiated. She was sure her mother wasnt going to help her, and what she thought was right. Emmy was alone and by herslef for the nine months of her pregnancy. Her mother wouldn't help her and would barely talk to her. When Emmy has the baby her and Art get back together. Emmy and Art took the baby over to Arts house. At first when Emmy and Art told his parents, they didnt beileve them. His father and mother thought that it was just a child Emmy was babysitting for. The baby has the same birthmark as Art and its in the same place. Now they know that its Arts baby for sure. A little later in time, Art and Emmy breakup and Art goes off to Standford like he planned. Before he leaves he visits Emmy and the baby (Rosie). Now Emmy is living at home with her mother, cant go off to standford and live the life she wanted.
mystian detour for emmy May 31, 2006
be tide down to a child. Once young Emmy starts to show her pregnant belly the school makes her go to a school that deals with things like pregnant teens. What's unfair about this is she has to leave while art gets to run around care free Emmy has to quit chorus which she loves to do. She even has to give up the one thing she loves the most which is soccer. But the worst is yet to come. The night that Emmy does get to go out after she has her baby Rose her date turns out to be a total jerk. He tries to rape Emmy, but what hurts the most is that he labels her a [...]. I feel this way because he tells her before he force him self on he "it's not like you a virgin". To me this mean that if a girl has sex with one guy that it gives a sign to other guys that she'll have sex with any one. To me this book is stereotyping all teen mothers. But what about the fathers? I would recommend that all young girls who are being pressured into having sex to read this book. This book is the ultimate birth control.
My Review May 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Now in this situation, if you read this story, you would be very shocked. ok it starts out wit emmy, she is a freshman at high school, who lives with her mom, who is drunk half the time,and her brother, who is a drug attic, and is in rehab most of the time. ok and dont you think she has many problems of her own. then she meets Art Rodriguez. who is a straight A student( as well as Emmy) and he has major plans in going to Standford College when he graduates. ok so he meets emmy and like he starts to like her, and emmy feels the same for art. then she has sex one time in her brothers bedroom, and she didnt no how to put the condom on the right way? lol. and when she had sex, she started bleeding, then she did it again at the beach but this time, she didnt use any protection, thinking you know, she believe art n what he says that " he pulled out in time" that right there is such a lie? but anyway.... emmy finds out she's pregant then art doesnt belive her until she passes out at choir class. and then the nurse tells her she might be pregnant. so right there emmy and art's relationship go down hill from there. then Mr. Rodriguez(art's dad) sees art's baby for the first time,and thinks that emmy is babysitting for someone else, then she tells him that its his grndchild, art's baby, her baby. then afterward art's family are happy and upset,just because emmy had a baby that was art's, art's mom doesnt believe that Rosie is art's baby, her birthmark looks exatly like art's and its in the same place, she thinks she got her baby tattooed? now that right there is ridiculous, who in the world would get there baby's birth mark tattoed? but then Emmy and Art break-up,and he gets ready for Standford, but before he goes, he stops by Emmy's every night before he leaves for college. and visits them two. and then they finally break up and then Emmy finally finds someone else.. in the end. so hopefully that they will bring out another story in that one.
My favorite book of all time. September 10, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book when I was in 8th grade which was a year ago. I first found it online and wanted it so badly and when I finally got it, I was rushing to finishing my work so I could read it some more but, when I finished it, I was sad because that meant that I couldn't read about Emmy anymore. This is a story about a strait-A student who, in her freshmen year of high school, falls in love with Art, also a strait-A student headed for Stanford but when she finds out she's pregnant because of unprotected sex on the beach, Art says it's not his because of the pull-out method which apparently doesn't work(no,duh!). So Emmy, gives up everything for her child while Art goes to Stanford and doesn't even tell his parents about his child. Before, you go and think it's just another teen-pregnacy book, know this: it's not! This book shows sacrafice, love, and how you can discover how strong you can be. A must-read. If I could chose a book to read for my english class, again, I'd choose this even though a teacher proably wouldn't approve it for a class read, but it's perfect for an independent read. This book also shows girls that the only way to not get pregnant, is to not have sex.
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