Sixteen year old Janice Parker flies to Iran to spend time with her archeologist father in the desert of Iran. When she arrives, she finds herself caught up in the throes of an impending revolution. After her father is injured, it is up to her to rescue him from prison and, with the help of her new friend, Amir, escape from Iran.

This anthology is a collection of voices that belie many faulty societal representations of pregnant and parenting teens. The young mothers at The Chiles Academy are proving daily that stereotypes of teenage mothers do not define them. Discovering who they are, is for them, as it is for all of us, a work in progress. Told through essays, poems and short stories, the young women's voices reach out to the reader in touching and often emotional ways.