Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

National Book Award WinnerJacqueline Woodson, one of today’s finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.  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 …

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