01576cam a2200397 i 4500 301376820 TxAuBib 20170815120000.0 100105s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307474841 pbk. 0307474844 pbk. (OCoLC)498129755 TxAuBib rda Sapphire, 1950- Precious : based on the novel Push / by Sapphire. New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 1996. 139 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cover title. "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. 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. 20170815. Incest Fiction. Teenage pregnancy Fiction. Teenage mothers Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. African American girls Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Sexual abuse victims Fiction. Child abuse Fiction. Literacy Fiction. Inner cities Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.