Teen Angel

by Gloria Velásquez

Overview

This new installment in the Roosevelt High School series focuses on teen pregnancy.

Celia is a beautiful young girl on the brink of her sophomore year in high school. She watches her weekly soap opera Teen Angel and dreams about cute boys. One day, when Celia goes to visit her best friend Cassie, she meets Nicky, an exciting older boy with a tattoo of a snake on his arm. Finally, it seems that all the things that she’s been dreaming of are coming true with this boy who could pass for one of the stars on her favorite show.

When Nicky discards her and Celia discovers she’s pregnant, problems spiral around her. How will she face her parents and finish school? What happens when her fellow students at Roosevelt High find out? With the help of her older sister Juanita, Celia tries to deal with the results of her infatuation with an older boy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611927658
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	05/31/2003
Series:	Roosevelt High School Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	211 KB
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

GLORIA L. VELÁSQUEZ is an award-winning writer of poetry and fiction. She is the author of two poetry collections, I Used to Be a Superwoman  (1997) and  Xicana on the Run (2006), and the Roosevelt High School Series: Tyrone’s Betrayal (2006), Teen Angel  (2003), Ankiza (2000), Rina’s Family Secret  (1998), Maya’s Divided World (1995), Tommy Stands Alone (1995), and Juanita Fights the School Board (1994), all from Piñata Books. Velásquez is currently a professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.