Spellbound

By Janet McDonald

Subjects: Spelling bees, Resilience (Personal quality), Ambition, Scholarships and fellowships, African Americans, Determination in teenage girls, Friendship, fiction, Dropouts, fiction, African-American teenage mothers, African-American single mothers, Fiction, Children's fiction, High school dropouts, African-American teenage girls, Juvenile fiction, Teenage mothers, Public housing, Teenage pregnancy, Best friends

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.