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Narrator: Hoult, Nicholas
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Published: Oct 2007
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Pregnancy
Retail Price: $29.95
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young interrupted her life. There's only one person Sam can turn to--his hero, skating legend Tony Hawk. Sam believes the answers to life's hurdles can be found in Hawk's autobiography.
But even Tony Hawk isn't offering answers this time--or is he? Inexplicably, Sam finds himself whizzed into the future, for a quick glimpse of what will be . . . or what could be. In this wonderfully witty, poignant story about a teenage boy unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood, it's up to Sam to make the right decisions so the bad things that could happen, well, don't.
Nicholas Hoult does a very good job voicing this problem novel with a little timeslip thrown in. The characters are memorable and their emotional arcs ring true. While the subject matter is a serious, humor is a frequent, and appropriate, element in Hoult's voicing.