The Girls Who Grew Big

When Adela Woods tells her parents she is expecting a baby, she is shipped off to her grandmother in Padua Beach, Florida. There she can secretly give birth, give the baby up for adoption and afterwards resume her perfect, athletic life. In Padua Beach, however, Adela meets Emory, another teenage mother. Emory introduces her to Simone and the rest of ‘the Girls’, a group of young mothers combining girlhood and motherhood. They are a group of outcasts, sticking up for each other. The Girls Who Grew Big is an inspiring novel about growing up and the meaning of friendship and motherhood.