Baby Help

by Marilyn Reynolds

Book Overview

Melissa doesn't consider herself abused-Rudy only hits her occasionally when he's drinking-until she realizes the effect his abuse is having on their child. Finally Melissa leaves Rudy, and she and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885356269
• ISBN13: 9781885356260
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Morning Glory Press (CA)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Baby Help!

I loved this book it is the best book for a teen to read. In the book the girl is getting abused by her boyfriend then they have a child together and the abuse is more severe than before. so what happens towards the end the girl decide that her daughter dosen't need to see her father beating on her mother so she decides to move to a home for abused women and she stays for six weeks and then decides to move with her mother and her mothers friend. When she moves with them her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer and the girls mother goes through chimotherapy and radiation therapy . The point of the book is that women don't neeed to be abused.

Page Turner!

Marilyn Reynolds is my new favorite author! Her books capture teen issues, and all of them are so realistic. When I saw this book in the library, I decided to read it. It was the first book by Marilyn Reynolds I ever read. ~*~ 'Baby Help' is the story of seventeen-year-old Melissa, who struggles with her two-year-old, Cheyenne, and her abusive boyfriend. Melissa loves Rudy, her boyfriend and the father of Cheyenne, but Rudy hits Melissa. He has for a long time, but nobody's perfect, right? That's what Melissa says, but she can't stand the fact that Rudy is so cruel. But when Rudy really hurts her, Melissa and Cheyenne go to a shelter for battered women. This is a page-gripping, powerful story of how a teen Mom deals with her abusive lover. I reccomend this for ages 12-90! This book is great!

A powerfully written fictional treatment

The latest in the "True-to-Life from Hamilton High" series, Marilyn Reynolds' Baby Help is a novel of the nightmare of teen domestic abuse. A young mother doesn't see herself as battered because her boyfriend "only" hits her when he's been drinking... until he starts behaving abusively toward her daughter. That's when she realizes it's time to get out of the relationship - but after she reaches a shelter for battered women, she has second thoughts about leaving, which place her and her daughter's life in mortal jeopardy. Baby Help is a powerfully written fictional treatment of a very real and dangerous issue facing teens today.

Marilyn Reynolds does it again!

I first read Marilyn Reynolds' books when I was working with her son, Matt, at Alhambra High School. I was very impressed with how insightful her writing is. Baby help is no acception. I now recommend her books to my high school students and they all say the same thing - "I couldn't put it down." These books even appeal to reluctant readers because they are so well written. Everyone should read these books!

This really captures a teenagers struggles!!

I read this book and I think that girls in this situation can really relate, but I also think that this book would be good for anyone. I couldn't put this book down!