Push
[New York] : Books on Tape, 2009.
Format: Eaudiobook
Description: digital
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.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Fiction.
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Literacy -- Fiction.
Incest -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Literacy -- Fiction.
Incest -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781415967195 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
Main (Downtown) | Out (Due: 5/9/2024) |
Eaudiobook
More Formats
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 5:05:09.
Electronic resource.
Read by Bahni Turpin.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 73085 KB; MP3 file size: 143142 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 5:05:09.
Electronic resource.
Read by Bahni Turpin.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 73085 KB; MP3 file size: 143142 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.