By:
Joanne Horniman
Grade Level:
In the small Australian town of Lismore, seventeen-year-old Matt is determined to take care of his five-month-old girl, Mahalia. Five months earlier, Matt and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend Emmy defend their decision to keep the baby to her parents by insisting, “We’ll just love it, okay?” (Horniman, 2003, p. 15).