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: High school dropouts, English language, Fiction, Orthography and spelling, Best friends, Spelling, African Americans, Teenage mothers, Teenage pregnancy, African-American single mothers, Public housing, African-American teenage mothers, African-American teenage girls, Resilience (Personal quality), Spelling bees, Determination in teenage girls, Scholarships and fellowships, Ambition, Friendship, Juvenile fiction, Dropouts, Single mothers, Large type books, Fiction, general