Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Nancy Paulsen Books

Brown Girl Dreaming

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems.

A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK - WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY

"Moving and resonant . . . captivating."--The Wall Street Journal

I am born in Ohio but
the stories of South Carolina already run
like rivers
through my veins.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Jacqueline Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 70s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, providing a glimpse into a child's soul as she finds her voice through writing and searches for her place in the world.

Teeming with feeling and deeply personal, Brown Girl Dreaming is the groundbreaking chronicle of Woodson's journey to storytelling, and a beautiful portrayal of physical, emotional, and spiritual growth.

Book Details
Publisher:
Nancy Paulsen Books
ISBN:
9780147515827
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Authors:
Jacqueline Woodson
Published Date:
2016-10-11
Language:
English
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About Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson has received four Newbery Honors. They came for Show Way, Feathers, After Tupac & D Foster and Brown Girl Dreaming. Brown Girl Dreaming, her memoir in verse, won the 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award; Locomotion was a National Book Award finalist in 2003 and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book the following year. She served as Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature from 2018 to 2019, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.

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