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Brown girl dreaming
- Author
- Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
- Title
- Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York, New York : Puffin Books, 2016.
- Description
- 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
- Uniform series
- Oak Park Multicultural Collection.
- Notes
- "Contains seven new, original poems by the author"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents
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- 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.
- 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.
- Target audience
- Ages 10 and up.
- Awards
- National Book Award Winner. Newbery Honor Book. Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
- Subject headings
- Woodson, Jacqueline--Biography. Woodson, Jacqueline--Juvenile poetry. African American women authors--Biography--Juvenile poetry. Identity (Psychology) in children--Juvenile poetry. Identity (Psychology) in children--Biography. African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Juvenile poetry. African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Biography. Children--Books and reading--Juvenile poetry. Children--Books and reading--Biography. United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Juvenile poetry. United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Biography.
- Genre heading
- Biographies. History. Juvenile works. Poetry. Biographies.
- ISBN
- 0147515823 9780147515827 9780606393102 0606393102 9781484496749 (bound) 1484496744