Download or read book Grown-up Fast written by Betsy Israel and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teen, Betsy was an outsider, a half-Jewish girl living in a world of blue-collar Catholics. She longed to fit in, and sex and drugs were the way. At seventeen she became pregnant and later gave the child up. The truest story yet written about teenage pregnancy and the peculiar isolation and despair of teenage life in America.