First the Egg

by Louise Moeri

Book Overview

In Sarah's senior high school Marriage and Family class, the students are paired, and each pair is assigned an egg to tend for a week as if it were an infant. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671475258
• ISBN13: 9780671475253
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 300.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

realistically written book

I read this book in the late 90's when I saw it in the school library. It's about a girl taking Marriage & Family class at high school and is preparing for graduation. She and a partner have to carry an egg around like it is an infant and they have to keep a log of it, and cannot leave the egg unsupervised. She is having a hard time with her partner's lack of commitment to the project, while at the same time she is having issues at hom, mainly because of her father's temper tantrums. The language in this book has a sense of realism although it can be a little bit foul at times. I think the author tried her best to capture the realism of how schools across north america were doing this egg project, while at the time I read this, the Parenting course I was taking in high school had us use 'Baby Think It Over" dolls for a couple days. Other books for kids also used the egg project as a part of their plot. Ann M. Martin's baby sitters club book Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies; and Patricia Hermes Nothing But Trouble Trouble Trouble, which are more kid friendly, but I'd take this book over those anyday, this one is for more mature readers.