Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
Material type: TextDescription: 349 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cmISBN:- 0147515823
- 9780147515827
- 9780606393102
- 0606393102
- 9781484496749
- 1484496744
- Woodson, Jacqueline -- Biography
- Woodson, Jacqueline -- Juvenile poetry
- Woodson, Jacqueline -- Poetry
- Woodson, Jacqueline
- Woodson, Jacqueline
- Woodson, Jacqueline -- 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
- Authors, American -- Poetry
- African American women authors -- Poetry
- Women -- Biography -- Poetry
- African Americans -- Biography -- Poetry
- Autobiographical poetry
- African American women authors -- Biography
- Identity (Psychology) in children -- Juvenile poetry
- Identity (Psychology) in children -- Biography
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile poetry. -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Biography. -- 20th century
- Children -- Books and reading -- Juvenile poetry
- Children -- Books and reading -- Biography
- Authors, American -- Biography -- 20th century
- Coretta Scott King Award
- African American women authors
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Children -- Books and reading
- Identity (Psychology) in children
- Social conditions
- African American women authors -- Poetry
- Authors, American -- Poetry
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980 -- Juvenile poetry
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980 -- Biography
- United States
- 811/.54 B 23
- PS3573.O64524 Z46 2016
- I712.82
- National Book Award Winner.
- Newbery Honor Book.
- Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Portsmouth Branch Library Reserved Cupboard | Non-fiction | 811/.54 Woo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Processing | PORT23120007 |
"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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