Roxy's Baby is a 2005 young adult novel by Catherine MacPhail. It is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Roxy who becomes pregnant and subsequently runs away from home.
 First edition | |
| Author | Catherine MacPhail |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Publication date | 6 June 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-7475-7042-4 |
| OCLC | 224311899 |
Plot edit
Roxy is a fifteen-year-old girl living with her mother, her younger sister, and her new step-dad. Upset about her father's death and resentful of her mother remarrying, she begins to rebel. She attends a party where she has sex for the first time. Soon realising she's pregnant, Roxy runs away from home in fear. She goes to London, hoping to stay a shelter she read about, but quickly leaves when she realises the woman in charge will phone the police, when she learns Roxy is underage.
Luckily, she finds help in the form of Mr and Mrs Dyce, a couple who host young pregnant women in their country house. Things quickly become suspicious; the girls in the Dyces' care are completely cut off from the rest of the world, not allowed to leave the grounds, or even read newspapers or listen to the radio, and once a girl is sent into the birthing room she's never seen again. The Dyces have answers to all of these, but things still seem odd.
One night Roxy slips out, and discovers the Dyces have an extremely sinister motive behind their kindness...
Reception edit
It won the 13–16 years category at the 2006 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books.[1] It was also shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ "Children vote for favourite books". BBC News. 27 November 2006. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
- ^ Manchester Book Award Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
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