• Brown Girl Dreaming - Ingram
1 1

Penguin Young Readers Group, 2016-11-10

Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson, Author

Paperback

9780147515827

$10.99 USD
$0.00 USD $10.99 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
828 available
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.
  • Make Way for Books Annotation

Charming free verse vignettes from the childhood of Jacqueline Woodson draw the reader into a life rich with feelings, scents, sounds, and sensations within an African-American family. Mentions of Rosa Parks, the Civil Rights marches and segregated lunch counters provide great points of discussion. However, the focus is simple family times: catching fireflies, church meetings, Saturday night shampoos, best friends on the front steps. The short readings will appeal to middle school readers, and the simple, character-building accounts of home will stay with them long after the book is shut.

Keywords and Themes: African American & Black • Award Winner • Biography & Autobiography • General • Juvenile Nonfiction • Literary • Poetic Devices • Poetry • Prejudice & Racism • Relationships • Sharing • Social Topics • Storytelling • Women

Readability • 6.6

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 368

Subjects • Children • Poetry • Biography • History • Civil rights • Racism • Autobiographies • Identity (Psychology) • Books and reading • United States • Psychological aspects • Social conditions • 20th century • Black authors • Identity (Psychology) in children • African Americans • Juvenile works • 1960-1980 • African American women authors • Woodson • Jacqueline • JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiograp • JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General • Autobiographical poetry • American • JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudi

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women • Juvenile Nonfiction | African American & Black • Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism • Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems.

A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK - WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY

"Moving and resonant . . . captivating."--The Wall Street Journal

I am born in Ohio but
the stories of South Carolina already run
like rivers
through my veins.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Jacqueline 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 70s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, providing a glimpse into a child's soul as she finds her voice through writing and searches for her place in the world.

Teeming with feeling and deeply personal, Brown Girl Dreaming is the groundbreaking chronicle of Woodson's journey to storytelling, and a beautiful portrayal of physical, emotional, and spiritual growth.

View full details