Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story traces the emotional journey of Judith, a cheerleader and honors student at a Catholic girls' school in Massachusetts. When her 17-year-old boyfriend, Kevin O'Brien, gives her a diamond ring the summer before her senior year, she feels as if her life is perfect. But her pregnancy changes everything. Kevin's parents don't want him to start a family at such a young age, and Mrs. O'Brien tells Judith to get an abortion. As a Catholic and an adopted child, Judith must look within her own heart and decide what to do. This beautifully written coming-of-age story will appeal to students of women's studies as well as teenagers and their parents and grandparents."Believe in Me is the honest and courageous story of 16-year-old Judith's transformation into a responsible young woman. Highly recommended reading for teens, parents, and educators."--Joyce Allan, R.N., author of Because I Love You

Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story

Judith Dickerman-Nelson

Jefferson Park Press

<p>Author Elizabeth Meade Howard felt abruptly promoted to family elder after the death of her father—New York adman, writer, patient teacher and life-long role model. When facing her own later years, Howard sought guidance from the experts—resourceful and resilient older men and women whom she admired for their imagination, adaptability and successful aging. Some were famous.They include journalists Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas; actors Hal Holbrook, Carol Channing, Nanette Fabray and Dennis Weaver; photographers Gordon Parks and Helen Levitt; singer Bobby Short; New York Mayor Ed Koch; National Book Award winner Mary Lee Settle; Babar author Laurent deBrunhoff; poets Eleanor Taylor, Richard Wilbur and Stanley Kunitz; reincarnation researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale’s widow, Ruth Stafford Peale and theologian Bishop John Shelby Spong. Civil rights leader Rosa Parks adds brief thoughts as well. Howard shares intimate interviews with her inspiring role models. She offers readers helpful tactics and lasting legacies of creative people in their 70s, 80s and beyond who continued to take risks and contribute their talents. They celebrated aging as a time of depth, understanding, commitment and hope.An award winning reporter, and former lecturer at the University of Virginia, Elizabeth Meade Howard has written widely on health, women and aging. She is an editor of Streetlight Magazine online and a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Howard also has produced documentary films; several focus on remarkable women in their last decades. She and her husband, John, live in Charlottesville, Va.</p>

Aging Famously: Follow Those You Admire to Living Long and Well

Howard, Elizabeth Meade

Self-Help

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Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story

Aging Famously: Follow Those You Admire to Living Long and Well