Push
About this book
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time
Subjects
- 813/.54
- african american girls
- african american girls--fiction
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans--fiction
- bildungsromans
- child abuse
- child abuse--fiction
- collectionid:alpinechallenge
- collectionid:bannedbooks
- collectionid:conroechallenge
- collectionid:eaneschallenge
- domestic fiction
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, urban & street lit
- fiction, african american, urban
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- incest
- incest--fiction
- literacy
- literacy--fiction
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-05-31
- pregnant schoolgirls
- ps3569.a63 p87 2009
- teenage mothers
- teenage mothers--fiction