Title: Spellbound
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.
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, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Dropouts, fiction
Places: New York City Brooklyn