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Precious : Based on the Novel Push

Sapphire, 1950- Book on CD - 2009 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Read by Bahni Turpin.
A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
Contents: Push.

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Precious (Motion picture)



PUBLISHED
Westminster, MD : Books on Tape, p2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 4 sound discs (5 hr., 5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781415967171 :
1415967172 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sapphire, 1950-
Turpin, Bahni.

SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Fiction.
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Literacy -- Fiction.
Incest -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromane.