Sapphire  <br/><br/>
Push    a novel   
Sapphire 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf :  Distributed by Random House,  c1996. 
 - 141, [38] p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679446265 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96016516 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Child abuse--Fiction.<br/>Incest--Fiction.<br/>Pregnant schoolgirls--Fiction.<br/>Literacy--Fiction.<br/>Afro-American girls--Fiction.<br/>Afro-Americans--Fiction.--New York (State)--New York
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3569.A63  / P87 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Sap   2