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The First Part Last, By Angela Johnson
ISR 3 The First Part Last by Angela Johnson is a book about a teenage boy named Bobby Morris a sixteen year old boy who has just found out on his birthday that his girlfriend Nia is pregnant with his child. After finding out this news a lot has changed in not just her life ,but also Bobbys. This isn’t your typical pregnancy story where the dad is not in the child's life it’s actually just the quite opposite. But now Nia has passed away from eclampsia Bobby has made the decision to keep the baby and step up to the plate and raise her on his own with the help of his parents and his helpful brother. Bobby doesn’t know what to do with his life trying to deal with school and he barely gets any sleep so dealing with that and everything else going

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