Format:
Book
Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
Title:
Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
Publisher, Date:
New York, New York : Puffin Books, 2016.
Description:
349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
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 Note:
Ages 10 and up.
Subjects:
Woodson, Jacqueline -- Biography.
Woodson, Jacqueline -- Juvenile poetry.
1900-1999
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:
Biography.
History.
Juvenile works.
Poetry.
Notes:
"Contains seven new, original poems by the author"--Page [4] of cover.
National Book Award Winner.
Newbery Honor Book.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
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.
ISBN:
0147515823
9780147515827
9780606393102
0606393102
Other Number:
940280848
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
359288
Call Number:
J 811.54 WOO-W
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1