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Push, by Sapphire

Label
Push, by Sapphire
Language
eng
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technical information on music
Form of composition
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Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Push
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
462819977
Responsibility statement
by Sapphire
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.0, 5, 5, 135071
Summary
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
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resource.variantTitle
Precious, based on the novel Push
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