Precious
African American girls
Teenage mothers
18.06 Anglo-American literature
Urban
Street life
Teenage pregnancy
Incest
African American
Teacher-student relationships
Literacy
Reading Level-Grade 7
Child abuse
Reading Level-Grade 8
Domestic fiction
Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 10
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 12
African americans, fiction
African Americans
Fiction, general
Fiction
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and wri…
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