Sapphire
Push a novel Sapphire - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996. - 141, [38] p. ; 20 cm.
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.
0679446265
96016516
Child abuse--Fiction.
Incest--Fiction.
Pregnant schoolgirls--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Afro-American girls--Fiction.
Afro-Americans--Fiction.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
PS3569.A63 / P87 1996
Sap 2
Push a novel Sapphire - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996. - 141, [38] p. ; 20 cm.
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.
0679446265
96016516
Child abuse--Fiction.
Incest--Fiction.
Pregnant schoolgirls--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Afro-American girls--Fiction.
Afro-Americans--Fiction.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
PS3569.A63 / P87 1996
Sap 2