By Kathey Smith
Review
Johnson, Angela., The Frist Part Last, Simon & Schuster, 2003, 0689849222
Johnson did an awesome job capturing the unpredictable life involving teen pregnancy. The main character Bobby appears so real that the reader has clear view of Bobby and, his family, and his issues. Johnson takes the readers through the past and the present smoothly. Bobby is caught unprepared to be a father; however that’s not all he is unprepared for. Bobby's life starts to fall like stacked dominos, when not only he learns he is going to be a father, from his currant girlfriend Nia, his family is parted due to this issue, the child's mother suffers a tragedy. This book offers a good look at teen pregnancy from a not so common view. Emotional spouts are present that represents the emotional aspects experienced by the teen father that makes the reader want to reach out and help this character. This book is a good read and will appeal to many teen readers due to the real like life issues with family, and friends the author addresses about the character faces. Although there is robust language used Johnson continues to let her reader know this is a boy on the way to manhood. The cover of this book alone can serve as a hook for many teen readers, as well as a teen father beginning an uncertain era of life and ending life as he knew it. Teens may want to ask Bobby or other's like Bobby and ask what thoughts came to mind first when they found themselves in this sitution? And what would they do differently. What suggestions for Bobby do the teen reader have for Bobby. What do you think Bobby did about his sitution?
Johnson did an awesome job capturing the unpredictable life involving teen pregnancy. The main character Bobby appears so real that the reader has clear view of Bobby and, his family, and his issues. Johnson takes the readers through the past and the present smoothly. Bobby is caught unprepared to be a father; however that’s not all he is unprepared for. Bobby's life starts to fall like stacked dominos, when not only he learns he is going to be a father, from his currant girlfriend Nia, his family is parted due to this issue, the child's mother suffers a tragedy. This book offers a good look at teen pregnancy from a not so common view. Emotional spouts are present that represents the emotional aspects experienced by the teen father that makes the reader want to reach out and help this character. This book is a good read and will appeal to many teen readers due to the real like life issues with family, and friends the author addresses about the character faces. Although there is robust language used Johnson continues to let her reader know this is a boy on the way to manhood. The cover of this book alone can serve as a hook for many teen readers, as well as a teen father beginning an uncertain era of life and ending life as he knew it. Teens may want to ask Bobby or other's like Bobby and ask what thoughts came to mind first when they found themselves in this sitution? And what would they do differently. What suggestions for Bobby do the teen reader have for Bobby. What do you think Bobby did about his sitution?
Publisher Weekly "The author skillfuly relates the hope in the mist of pain"
Childres's Literature "the entire novel attemps to teache about life, growth, and maruity"
Winner of 2004 Coreeta Scott King Author Award.
Winner of 2004 Michael L. Printz.
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