Push : a novel

Resource Information

The work Push : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Push : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by Sapphire

Creator

• Sapphire, 1950-

Subject

• African American girls
• African American girls -- Fiction
• African American teenage mothers
• African American teenage mothers -- Fiction
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Harlem, New York City -- Fiction
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• African-American teenage mothers -- Fiction
• African-Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Abuso del niño -- Novela
• Bildungsromane
• Child abuse
• Child abuse -- Fiction
• Child abuse victims -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Incest
• Incest -- Fiction
• Incest victims' families -- Fiction
• Incest victims' mothers -- Fiction
• Literacy
• Literacy -- Fiction
• Madres adolescentes -- Novela
• Muchachas afroamericanas -- Novela
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• Single African-American mothers -- Fiction
• Sixteen-year-old girls -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Street life -- Fiction
• Teacher-student relationships -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Teenage mothers
• Teenage mothers -- Fiction
• Afroamericanos -- Novela

Genre

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Novela
• Bildungsromane

Language

eng

Summary

Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption

Member of

• Precious

Cataloging source

BKL

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

PS3569.A63

LC item number

P87 1997

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

4.0

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR