THE GIRLS WHO GREW BIG, L. MottleyAdela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmothers home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who brings her newborn to high school, determined to graduate despite the odds; Simone, mother of four year old twins, weighs her options when she finds herself pregnant again; and the rest of the Girls, a group of outcast young moms who