Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2016.Description: 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0147515823
  • 9780147515827
  • 9780606393102
  • 0606393102
  • 9781484496749
  • 1484496744
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.O64524 Z46 2016
Other classification:
  • I712.82
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:
  • National Book Award Winner.
  • Newbery Honor Book.
  • Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
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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Book Book Stonewall Young Adult YA PS 3573 WOO 2016 1 Available 257191

"Contains seven new, original poems by the author"--Page 4 of cover.

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.

National Book Award Winner.

Newbery Honor Book.

Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015

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