Precious

Description:

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 write. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.

subjects: Incest,  Child abuse,  African American girls,  African American teenage mothers,  African Americans,  Teenage mothers,  Fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  African-Americans,  Child abuse victims,  African-American teenage mothers,  Incest victims' mothers,  Street life,  African American,  Single African-American mothers,  Urban,  Sixteen-year-old girls,  Incest victims' families,  Teacher-student relationships,  Literacy,  Domestic fiction,  Pregnant teenagers,  18.06 Anglo-American literature,  Teenage pregnancy,  Fiction, general,  African americans, fiction