Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.

By:

Woodson, Jacqueline [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, New York : Nancy Paulsen Books , 2016Description: 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780147515827

Subject(s):

Identity (Psychology) in children -- Juvenile poetry

DDC classification:

811/.54 B 23

LOC classification:

PS3573.O64524 Z46 2016

Online resources:

Contents:

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.

Awards:

Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
National Book Award Winner.
Newbery Honor Book.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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