Leap of Faith / Jamie Blair / 234 pages

I chose this YA book as a stress relief book after reading about oppressed women.  HMMM.  Faith's mother is an alcoholic, drug addicted, abusive, manipulative woman who is trying to get pregnant as a surrogate mother for a drug dealer.  Faith is her 17 year old daughter who marginally exists on whatever she can find.  She doesn't even own an entire bed; just a mattress.
Her sister, Hope, is going to start college in the summer and that will leave Faith alone to face her mother. 
Suspend the belief that it could happen like this, but Faith is able to steal the baby that her mother delivers by simply taking it to the car to put into the carseat and then, supposedly to drive up and get her mother which she doesn't do.  Instead, Faith drives to Florida to start a new life as Leah with her baby Addy.  Many realistic problems come up with the baby and what to do with no money.  Leah also encounters incredible luck with the people that she meets in the book.  They are really wonderful characters that you really want to have work out for her.  But reality is still there.  The baby is still stolen. and ultimately, Faith has to fix the problems. The author cheats at the end with a "lady or tiger" ending at the door.  I would rather have had a sequel.