Seventeen and pregnant, Daphne Blake runs away to start a new life working as a waitress. With the help of new friends, she can finally make the decision that is best for herself.
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Grade 7 Up-- With an abusive father, a cowed mother, and nervous and unhappy younger brothers, 17-year-old Daphne dreams of a loving family, a happy home. When the passions of a prom-night drive with wonderful Scott, who's going off to college, leave her pregnant and unwilling to have an abortion, her fear of her father's reaction pushes her into packing a few essentials, leaving high school, and hopping a bus to a new city. Resenting the new life growing inside her and anxious for the time when she can put it up for adoption, Daphne finds a job waitressing in a new restaurant. The owner, a former surgeon, and the cook, a young black student, have affection enough for everyone--the customers, each other, and especially Daphne. Surrounded by their caring, Daphne's life begins to take shape with a growing independence and the security that the job and new friends have afforded. Gradually, friends become her new family and when the baby is born, Daphne decides to keep it. Because the story is told by Daphne, it has a youthful sweetness about it. Through Daphne's eyes, readers see her "real" family and the complexities of her new "family" relationships. The difficult decisions, to break with Scott without telling of her pregnancy, and to carry her unborn child to term, are handled reasonably and appropriately, and there is depth in the measure of Daphne's mutually caring relationship with her mother, with whom she keeps in touch. It may all be too good to be true, but when the last pages connect Daphne with both of her families, it's a conclusion that will please readers. --Marjorie Lewis, Scarsdale Junior High School, NY
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Looking For Home,
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I am a grandmother who loves to read young adult novels. I was brought to tears when reading Looking For Home. What a brave girl Daphne was. Jean Ferris knows people's feelings and when Daphne found the job waitressing in T. Peter's restaurant, she found someone who was caring and loving. There are people in the world who care and Junior Lee, the cook, was also loving as was the artist Mattie, who loves her solitary life. Wait until you read this wonderful book and see how all these people play a part in Daphne and her baby's life. I wish the book hadn't ended. Jean would you write the sequel? Please?
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This book tells the story of Daphne, a young woman who leaves her abusive home when she discovers she is pregnant. Jean Ferris does not moralize: she does not skip over the obvious anguish every young woman must feel when she is such a situation, nor does she whitewash Daphne's difficulties in learning to trust and depend on the friends she gradually allows in her life. A very, very good book on a very important topic.
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This book tells the risks of young age pregnancy
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