"In Trouble is a novel about two teenage girls, set in the 1950s in New York. Jamie and Elaine are pregnant. Elaine wants to marry her boyfriend, and Jamie can't bear to think about the nightmare that happened to her. While Jamie tries to help Elaine keep the secret from her parents and find a way to get a 'procedure' done, she's unknowingly carrying around a little trouble. And as Jamie tries to accept her own reality, she discovers what's most important to her. Jamie is the poster child for making decisions, not necessarily because she chose to do the right thing, but because she made the decision to do what was in her self-interest--something that many girls in her situation wouldn't do. Although society says it's easily juggle children, work, school, and a relationship, that's not always humanly possible. Jamie shows readers, and the people around her, that it's sometimes alright to put yourself first.

And in doing so, she gives a new perspective to a choice that many people see as selfish, murderous, or wrong. As a teenage girl, I understand the terrors of being a young girl 'in trouble.' However, unlike Jamie and Elaine, I've never been in that predicament. If I were, circumstances today are definitely different, and being a pregnant teen is no longer shameful or isolating. Girls today have more options than they did back in the 1950s. In Trouble is a great book that compares society in the 1950s to present-day society. It certainly makes readers more appreciative of today's society. Jamie is a girl with whom every reader will form an emotional bond.

It's a great book, but definitely not a beach read. In Trouble is a book filled with surprises and mystery that readers won't be able to put down until the very last page." --SLJTeen.