Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon

Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery believes all black women wind up the same: single and raising children alone, like her mother. When she accidentally becomes pregnant by an older man and must decide what to do, she begins a journey towards adulthood. Then she falls in love with Rasul, a teenager with problems of his own, and together they must fight to rise above their circumstances and move toward a more positive future. Conception is told through the narrative voice of Shivana's unborn child, which gives this story of a young woman's struggle through life a new and different depth.