At sixteen, Star Peters is determined to keep her baby, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult each day. Instead of training for her high school's cross-country team and preparing for her junior year, she is struggling to meet her baby's needs, while trying to cope with painful, haunting secrets that she's shared with no one. Wilson Fletcher, the baby's father, someone Star had loved and trusted, won't even acknowledge that the baby is his. To make things even more complicated, Star's grandmother, concerned with her granddaughter's struggles as a teen mother, is threatening to put Star in foster care and find adoptive parents for the baby.
Star finds support from friends, especially Todd Ryan, a teen father caring for his infant daughter -- and at a center she attends for teen parents. Wilson, at seventeen, is smart, athletic and popular. He just wants to get on with life, but he's finding it difficult to forget about Star. As family and friends encourage Wil to accept his responsibility as a father, he begins to understand some important truths about the girl he can't forget, himself, and what he believes to be true. In alternating chapters, Star and Wil voice their most intimate secrets, feelings, hopes and fears about themselves and their baby.
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After moving to Western Maryland, I worked at a family center tutoring and testing adult education students for several weeks before they started taking GED classes. I was also a Parent Educator, teaching parenting classes on-site and as an outreach program. After moving back to the Eastern Shore, I worked at another family center, first as the lead teacher in the infant center - and later as a family advocate working with families both in-home and on-site teaching parenting and life skills.
