Joyce Shor Johnson
ASIN: B00AQS6HDA
Publisher: 3 Petal Books
Pages: 220
Sharon is 15, Jewish and pregnant. Just because the rules aren't beingreinforced during the summer doesn't mean she can break tradition. Sentaway to deliver her baby in secret, her family hopes to avoid disgrace.Sharon vows to find a way to make it all work so she can keep her babyand marry Irish. Sharon waits out her pregnancy watching as one-by-one,the other girls give birth, give up, and return to their "real" lives.Will Sharon end up doing the hardest thing she will ever have to do, say goodbye to her baby girl?Based on the true story of her birth mother, Johnson's HOUSE OF GIRLS recounts what it was like being from a conservative Jewish family and pregnant at 15, in 1961.