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Push

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  • Running Time: 05:05 hrs
    Narrator: Bahni Turpin
    Publisher:
    Books on Tape, 2009
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library Service
    Running Time: 05:05 hrs
    Narrator: Bahni Turpin
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Sapphire
    Contributor: Turpin, Bahni
    Date:
    Created
    2009
    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.

    Genre:
    Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction
    Subject(s): African American girls | African Americans | Child abuse | incest | Literacy | Teenage mothers
    Original Publisher: [S.I.], Books on Tape
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781415967195, 1415967199