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Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Nobel genes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
