Spellbound
By: Janet McDonald
Publisher: Speak
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780142501931
Subjects: Teenage pregnancy; African-American single mothers; Determination in teenage girls; African-American teenage mothers; Fiction; African-American teenage girls; Resilience (Personal quality); Best friends; Teenage mothers; Spelling bees; High school dropouts; Juvenile fiction; Public housing; Scholarships and fellowships; Ambition; African Americans
Description: Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
Notes: Originally published: [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.