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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller

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Push

by Sapphire

ISBN13: 9780679766759
ISBN10: 0679766758
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Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written

by Damien Paul

GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film

Festival

Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this horrific, hope-filled story (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.

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Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.

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: Danielle Underhill, October 21, 2009 (view all comments by Danielle Underhill)
Deeply disturbing but also very moving. This story is one of such harship and such abuse that it is at times hard to read; though ultimitley it makes the reader realize that this story is one of triump in the face of extreme adversity. You will cry, but you will also feel much stronger by the time you finish this journey with Precious Jones.
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ISBN:: 9780679766759
Author:: Sapphire
Publisher:: Vintage Books USA
Location:: New York :
Subject:: General
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Afro-americans
Subject:: Literacy
Subject:: Child abuse
Subject:: Incest
Subject:: African Americans
Subject:: Pregnant schoolgirls
Subject:: Domestic fiction
Subject:: Incest -- Fiction.
Subject:: Bildungsromane.
Subject:: Afro-American girls -- Fiction.
Subject:: Harlem
Subject:: African American girls
Subject:: Bildungsromans
Edition Description:: 1st Vintage comtemporaries ed.
Publication Date:: April 1997
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 192
Dimensions:: 8.04x5.23x.52 in. .39 lbs.

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