Brown girl dreaming
Woodson, Jacqueline,
Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson. - 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables; 21 cm
Family tree -- Part I: I am born -- Part II: The stories of South Carolina run like rivers -- Part III: Followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom -- Part IV: Deep in my heart, I do believe -- Part V. Ready to change the world -- Author's note -- Thankfuls -- Family photos -- The story isn't over : seven beautiful new poems.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, 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 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Ages 10 and up.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015 National Book Award Winner. Newbery Honor Book.
9780147515827
2019299931
Identity (Psychology) in children--Juvenile poetry
PS3573.O64524 / Z46 2016
811/.54 B
Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson. - 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables; 21 cm
Family tree -- Part I: I am born -- Part II: The stories of South Carolina run like rivers -- Part III: Followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom -- Part IV: Deep in my heart, I do believe -- Part V. Ready to change the world -- Author's note -- Thankfuls -- Family photos -- The story isn't over : seven beautiful new poems.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, 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 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Ages 10 and up.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015 National Book Award Winner. Newbery Honor Book.
9780147515827
2019299931
Identity (Psychology) in children--Juvenile poetry
PS3573.O64524 / Z46 2016
811/.54 B