Lucy Unstrung

Teens who get pregnant and raise their babies are often in the news. But what about those children who are growing up with parents scarcely half a generation older than themselves? In this wise and funny first novel by Carole Lazar, Lucy is a sensible, perhaps even rigid, thirteen year old who is convinced that Grandma, God, and the Catholic Church are on her side. She tries hard to make her twenty-eight-year-old mother see the error of her ways. It's not that her mother is wild - in their household even a fancy coffee causes a scene - but she has had to put off her own teenage years and she's chaffing at the restraints on her life. Lucy is faced with the loss of her family, her home, her school, and even her best friend. As she struggles to preserve what she can from her past life, she finds that while Grandma, God, and her church are still there for her, there are problems she has to solve for herself. From the Trade Paperback edition. Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : isbn:978-1-77049-226-4 Single Author : Carole Lazar Original Source : MIRC Files_New_Vortex_01_13 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Lazar, Carole Title Length : 013 Title Parm D : Lucy Unstrung Title Parm F : Lucy Unstrung Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 2530 Uncomma Author : Carole Lazar Title Parm A : Lucy Unstrung Thirteen-year-old Lucy, whose mother had her when she was fifteen, tries to hold on to her faith and solve problems on her own while her family deals with a reduced income, her relationship with her best friend becomes strained, and her parents begin arguing over her mom's rebellious acts