Hanging on to Max (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780689862687)

It's Sam Pettigrew's last year of high school. And he's spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max.
Max wasn't part of the plan. He wasn't even part of the backup plan. But he's here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone -- his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes to be a good dad.
Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding schedules, Sam gives fatherhood his best shot. Only no one told him it would be this hard. What if his best isn't good enough?

Author: Margaret Bechard
ISBN-10: 0689862687
ISBN-13: 9780689862687
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.08h x 5.12w x 0.57d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 59978 / Hanging on to Max

Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Winner
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended
Award: Iowa Teen Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 15
PW Notes and Reprints 01/12/2004 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2004
Library Journal Annex 03/23/2009