Cherry, Money, Baby

Cherry admits to having punched a girl, causing the girl to lose her tooth. She thinks about hitting another girl in the head with a paperweight. Her brother accidentally burns down a house. A boy roughhousing with another boy in a pool injures his ear.

Cherry performs oral sex on her boyfriend in a high school bathroom stall. Later, they have sex, which is only briefly described. She also makes out with another boy in his hotel room while they are using drugs. There are hookups at parties, a character thinks she might be pregnant after having unprotected sex, another character references a pregnancy scare. Cherry imagines what her belly would look like pregnant, and what a pregnancy would do to her body. Two young characters become pregnant.

Lots of uses of "f--k." Cherry calls a girl a "bitch" and her brother a "man-whore," and refers to another character as a "d--k."

Characters, including the teen protagonist, drink to drunkenness and take drugs. A pot-smoking boy burns down a house. Other characters smoke cigarettes, host parties with lots of drinking, bring underage characters to nightclubs, etc.

Parents need to know that Cherry, Money, Baby includes mature material, including lots of swearing, partying with alcohol and more, and sex between teens, which one time results in an unplanned pregnancy. One of the plot points is about a celebrity who asks a teen -- Cherry -- to carry her baby. The protagonist is a mouthy and impulsive girl who gets grounded and suspended from school, among other things, though she's ultimately shown to be a girl with a good heart. She looks after her friends and family, and learns to create a life for herself on her own terms.