Sapphire,  1950- <br/><br/>
Push :  a novel 
Title on cover :  Precious :  based on the novel Push  Precious. 
by Sapphire. 
 - New York :  Vintage Contemporaries,  [2009] 
 - 139 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307474841  13.00 0307474844 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Child abuse--Fiction.<br/>Incest--Fiction.<br/>Pregnant teenagers--Fiction.<br/>Literacy--Fiction.<br/>African American girls--Fiction.<br/>African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3569.A63  / P74 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54