The Pregnancy Project by : Gaby Rodriguez

Right now I am reading the book the pregnancy project and it starts off as a back ground summary to Gaby's life time. Gaby is in high right now and everyone in her life is saying that she is going to end up pregnant in high school. The reason people are saying this is because both her mother and siblings had children at a young age. Most of these pregnancies were during high school. Gaby and her family struggled a lot as they were all growing up. Neither Gaby of her siblings have their father with them at the time. She looks up to her mom a lot because she knows everything she has been through to take care of Gaby and all of her siblings. However, Gaby does struggle a lot on her own too because of everything people are saying about her. She goes want to finish high school and have a good future. Gaby doesn't want to have kids in high school because she's seen everything her and her family have through when they had their children. When Gaby was younger her sister just had a baby and was living with the father. But once the baby began to grow, Gaby's sister always left him with her until her mother told her that she could no longer leave the baby with Gaby. After that she saw her sister go through a lot and not one of Gaby's siblings made it through high school. As the book goes a long I wonder what Gaby is going to do about all the rumors going around.


In my opinion the way I see Gaby is that I honestly think of her as a very strong girl. The reason I say that Gaby is a strong and brave is because all her life she has been told that she will be become a teen mother. In the book there are many examples of how Gaby shows how strong and brave she really is. In the text it states that Gaby's father is no longer in her life and that now Gaby sees her mother as a mother and father. She doesn't get sad about the fact that her dad isn't with them anymore she knows that her mom has worked hard enough to get them where they are now. If I was in Gaby's position I don't think I would have been as strong as her and what I really enjoy about this story is that it can relate to many girls lives. I infer that as the book continues it is going to tell more about what people say about Gaby and how everything her family has been through in the past is also going to affect her. However, I also think that Gaby is going to be strong enough to fight back what people say about her.