Margaret Bechard

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Hanging on to Max

Margaret Bechard

It’s Sam Pettigrew’s last year of high school. And he’s spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max.

Max wasn’t part of the plan. He wasn’t even part of the backup plan. But he’s here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone—his dad, his new girlfriend, himself—that he has what it takes to be a good dad.

Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding…

 
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