Roxy's Baby
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Roxy's Baby is a young adult
novel
by Catherine MacPhail
, published in 2005. It is about a 14 year old girl named Roxy who becomes pregnant and subsequently runs away from home.
Roxy is a 14 year-old girl living with her mother, her younger sister- and her mothers new partner. She has gone completely off the rails since her fathers death, drinking, partying, and that one night, letting the boy kiss her and more...paranoid, convinced that her mother prefers her sister to her, Roxy realises she's pregnant and she doesn't see any solution other than running away to London.
She finds shelter in a girl's house but she soon sees that because she is underage the woman in charge will phone the police.Roxy decides that she can't stay there. Because of this, she gets in contact with Mr and Mrs Dyce who have a home for pregnant girls in the country.
Roxy is happy about having found someone and decides to go along with them. She is instanly suspicious when she arrives at the house, she wants to know why the Dyces would help all these girls and expect nothing in return? But she soon finds friends in the other girls that live in the house and everything seems to be fine.
But Roxy still finds herself wary of everything around her. Why does nobody see the girls after they've given birth to their babies? Why aren't the girls allowed to call their families and on top of that, why should Mr and Mrs Dyce be so kind to spend all this money for not getting back anything?
But Roxy finally finds herself working out the dark truth behind the outwardly compassionate Dyces, and it turns out to be far worse than she ever expected.
It won the 13–16 years category at the 2006 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books. It was also shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award
and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
.
Young adult literature
Young-adult fiction or young adult literature , also juvenile fiction, is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services of the American Library Association defines a young adult as "someone between the...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail is a Scottish-born author. MacPhail has quickly established a reputation as a writer of gritty, urban stories that tackle emotitional, contemporary issues but always work towards a positive solution and usually always are realistic....
, published in 2005. It is about a 14 year old girl named Roxy who becomes pregnant and subsequently runs away from home.
Roxy is a 14 year-old girl living with her mother, her younger sister- and her mothers new partner. She has gone completely off the rails since her fathers death, drinking, partying, and that one night, letting the boy kiss her and more...paranoid, convinced that her mother prefers her sister to her, Roxy realises she's pregnant and she doesn't see any solution other than running away to London.
She finds shelter in a girl's house but she soon sees that because she is underage the woman in charge will phone the police.Roxy decides that she can't stay there. Because of this, she gets in contact with Mr and Mrs Dyce who have a home for pregnant girls in the country.
Roxy is happy about having found someone and decides to go along with them. She is instanly suspicious when she arrives at the house, she wants to know why the Dyces would help all these girls and expect nothing in return? But she soon finds friends in the other girls that live in the house and everything seems to be fine.
But Roxy still finds herself wary of everything around her. Why does nobody see the girls after they've given birth to their babies? Why aren't the girls allowed to call their families and on top of that, why should Mr and Mrs Dyce be so kind to spend all this money for not getting back anything?
But Roxy finally finds herself working out the dark truth behind the outwardly compassionate Dyces, and it turns out to be far worse than she ever expected.
It won the 13–16 years category at the 2006 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books. It was also shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award
Manchester Book Award
The Manchester Book Award is a project run in Manchester, UK, organised by School Services at the Manchester Library & Information Service; it is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund. The project is currently in its fourth year....
and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal
The Carnegie Medal is a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...
.