Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.
year: 2000, 1993, 1994, 1970, 1999
call number/section: 1000
subjects: african americans, ohio, fiction, girls, bildungsromans, ohio, fiction, historical fiction, family, large type books, large print books, bildungsromans, audiobooks, compact discs
Editions
Morrison, Toni
Distributed by Random House (2000)
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.
Schools: 6
Morrison, Toni
Distributed by Random House (1993)
Schools: 2
Morrison, Toni
Plume Book (1994)
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.
Schools: 32
Morrison, Toni
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1970)
Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.
Schools: 1
Morrison, Toni
Chivers Press (1999)
Schools: 1
Morrison, Toni
Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.
Schools: 0
Morrison, Toni
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.
Schools: 1
Morrison, Toni
Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.
Schools: 0
Morrison, Toni
Schools: 1