Brown girl dreaming
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. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's poetry also reflects the joy of finding her vo…
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- Full title :Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
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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. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.
"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:336 pages : : illustrations, genealogical tables ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780399252518, 0399252517, 9780147515827, 0147515823, 9781432850425, 1432850423
- oclc:on1342454795
- LC Classification:PS3573.O64524
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