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In a world where the Human Sterility Virus (HSV) causes nearly everyone to become sterile after the age of 18, teenage pregnancy becomes both necessary AND trendy.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty disturbing to think of a world in which teenage girls are basically pimped out as incubators, but McCafferty manages to keep the tone light and funny overall.\u00a0 I especially enjoyed the \u201cFunBumps\u201d (complete with moving \u201cbabies\u201d inside) and the t-shirts for tweens that proclaimed they were \u201cBorn to Breed.\u201d\u00a0 Some people have accused this book of glorifying teenage pregnancy, but I think they got it completely wrong.\u00a0 If anything, this book derides our culture\u2019s current obsession with teen pregnancy.\u00a0 Shows like 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, while reportedly intending to show the harsh reality of teen pregnancy, have actually resulted in the glamorization of teen pregnancy.\u00a0 Need proof?\u00a0 How about news stories about pregnancy pacts, girls trying to get pregnant to get on the show, and the surge in popularity<\/a> of the names \u201cMaci\u201d and \u201cBentley\u201d (the names of a featured teen mom and her son).<\/p>\n Beyond the insanity of HSV and teen pregnancy for hire, there is another\u00a0level of complexity with twin sisters (Melody and Harmony) who were separated at birth and reunited as teens.\u00a0 Harmony was raised in Goodside, a highly religious, gated community in Pennsylvania, where she was raised with the singular goal of being a good wife and mother.\u00a0 Melody grew up in a \u201cnormal\u201d community in New Jersey, where she was given every advantage toward the end\u00a0of attending the best college and bringing in a large amount of money as a surrogate.\u00a0 I cannot even begin to describe how awkward it is when Harmony comes to town to try and \u201csave\u201d Melody from her life of sin, but I can assure you that the questions raised by this book will stick with you long after you put it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a world where the Human Sterility Virus (HSV) causes nearly everyone to become sterile after the age of 18, teenage pregnancy becomes both necessary AND trendy.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty disturbing to think of a world in which teenage girls are basically pimped out as incubators, but McCafferty manages to keep the tone light and funny … Continue reading Bumped by Megan McCafferty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}