"One thing it doesn't say on the side of a condom packet is, Warning! You must have an IQ of a billion to put this on properly!"
15-year-old boy Sam Jones obviously has less IQ than needed. On his 16th birthday his girlfriend Alicia tells him that she is pregnant.
Soon Sam has to swap his
skateboarding-teenage life with getting up in night and changing dirty nappie. After trying to run away…mehr"One thing it doesn't say on the side of a condom packet is, Warning! You must have an IQ of a billion to put this on properly!"
15-year-old boy Sam Jones obviously has less IQ than needed. On his 16th birthday his girlfriend Alicia tells him that she is pregnant.
Soon Sam has to swap his skateboarding-teenage life with getting up in night and changing dirty nappie. After trying to run away from his situation several times, Sam finds out that he has to take the respnsibility as a father.
It becomes more complicate3d, when the parents interfere because they have got a different opinion about having a baby as a teenager. Having a lot of ups and downs the book ends three years after the accident of Sam and Alicia.
The main character is the fifteen-year-old Sam Jones, who lives with his mother in London. His parents got him, when they were teenagers. He loves skateboarding and lives a normal life until a little accident happens.
In contrast to Sam Alicia lives in a wealthy familiy and her parents got her when they were financially secure. She actually does what she wants and makes decisions without thinking of other people.
The book is about consequences of having sex, teenage pregnancy and fatherhood and which both good and bad effects teenage pregnancy has on life. If shows the problems young parents have to face.
Teenage pregnancy in Britain has won of the highest rate in Europe, so the plot shows the real problems and fears teenage parents-to-be are going through.
I would recommend the book because it is written in a funny way and really lively. One could understand the views of different characters in the book. the time of the plot changes, the reader is whizzed into the future, I liked thios because it is varied. The colloquial language makes the story easy to understand and the character Sam makes everyone laugh. "Slam" is worth reading as it shows different aspects and views about a problem more and more teenagers are confronted with.
