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Independant novel study
Independent Novel Study

This independent novel study will discuss and explain why this is a good book for young pregnant girls, Waiting For June by Joyce Sweeney, it’s a non-fiction biography.

This novel explained that Sophie lived a normal life with her mother and wasn’t rich because in the book Acadia asked her to go shopping and she couldn’t spend much money, it took place in Florida, from between her mother’s house, school, Joshua’s house, Mikes house, outside and the hospital, the atmosphere of it would be between nervous, scared and confused to happy and in relief. The author did this because she was pregnant for the first time so she didn’t know what to think was nervous and someone was threatening her and her baby’s life so she was scared and confused to who it was, and he made it go from that to happy because she had the baby got it over with and she found out who was sending her the letters and she was relieved about the letters because she found out who sent them.

In chapter 1 of Waiting For June, Sophie gets pregnant and doesn’t think she will be able to go to college to be a poet.
In chapter 2 of Waiting For June, Sophie gets picked on about her poem in class, and talks to her counselor for the last time because she wasn’t giving her advice she liked nor wanted to hear.
In chapter 3 of Waiting For June, Sophie and Joshua spend the day together off school, and go for a long drive talking.
In chapter 4 of Waiting For June, Sophie decided to name her daughter June, someone put a mean threatening note in her locker saying “YOU’RE A SLUT AND I WILL GET YOU. AND YOU’RE BABY TO.
In chapter 5 of Waiting For June, Joshua tells Sophie he wants her and his girlfriend Acadia to get along, so he gets them to all hangout but Sophie doesn’t like her so far , and Sophie asks her mother about her dad but her mother told her not to bother he doesn’t want anything to do with them.
In chapter 6 of

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