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Precious the movie opened November 6. See more on the Precious website. Directed by Lee Daniels and starring Gabourey “Gabby� Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz, it’s based on the novel Push by Sapphire.

Harford County Public Library has two versions of Push - find the movie tie-in version, find the 1997 version.

This is what it says about the book in our catalog: "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Includes a Reading Group Guide Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time."