Precious
About this book
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.
Subjects
- 18.06 anglo-american literature
- african american
- african american girls
- african americans
- african-americans
- african americans, fiction
- african american teenage mothers
- african-american teenage mothers
- child abuse
- child abuse victims
- domestic fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- incest
- incest victims' families
- incest victims' mothers
- literacy
- pregnant teenagers
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- single african-american mothers
- sixteen-year-old girls
- street life
- teacher-student relationships
- teenage mothers
- teenage pregnancy
- urban