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Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.

This collection of high/low titles was created to increase the awareness and prevention of two phenomena that have become endemic among the teenage population: unwanted pregnancies and eating disorders. The test disk will help your students remember the important information imparted here.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 7 Up‘Seven young mothers describe the reality of their lives before and since the birth of their babies. None of them have maintained a relationship with their child's father. They all voice regret for lost youth and forgone opportunities. Many of them don't expect their children's lives to be much different from their own. Some of them indicate that they don't believe in the future at all. These stories reap caution upon caution on readers in a lecturing and remorseful tone. The book provides many facts about adolescents in America and seeks to give teenagers the benefit of the experiences of others, but misses the point made so well in one of the narratives: "Adults need to try to understand what kids are going through....You have to try to put yourself in their place and really talk to them." The teens this book might have reached aren't yet ready to listen and it is unlikely that they will see themselves in these stories. Teens that are in this position already know what it's like. Black-and-white and color photos appear throughout and a list of organizations is appended. Susan Kuklin's What Do I Do Now? (Putnam, 1991) and Jane Hammerslough's Everything You Need to Know about Teenage Motherhood (Rosen, 1995) are better titles on this topic.‘Melissa Gross, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 6^-12. Each of these books in The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Library series definitely encourages self-discipline, self-respect, control, and abstinence or contraception. Teen fathers, teenage mothers, and men in their late teens and twenties who are yet to become fathers all give other teens insight into the difficulty of rearing children when you yourself are still a child and the rewards of postponing children until marriage, adulthood, and an established job or career. It's a nicely rounded perspective. The teen moms confide their reason for pregnancy--often to humor the boyfriend or they were going to marry anyway (most aren't married)--and reveal their wish that they had not been sexually active so early. The teen fathers who are featured are unusual; they are still involved with their children, if not the child's mother, and have made the decision to share the responsibility. The successful men--some married, some with girlfriends, some unattached--all emphasize how unprepared they would have been for fatherhood and how much better their lives are because they have focused on future goals rather than immediate gratification. The teen moms and dads all love their children and care for them but realize how different their lives might have been had they not conceived these babies. All have ambitions, but readers will understand that many will have to defy huge odds to reach them. Since kids are becoming sexually active at younger ages, these easy-to-read books (large print, lots of white space and photos, short chapters) should be introduced into your collection as early as parent and community mores will allow. --Frances Bradburn