#36
Title: Brown Girl Dreaming
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Poetry 811.54
Category: Memoir
Rating: B
Published: 2014
Dates: 7/6/16
- 7/9/16
CDs/Hours: 4/3 hours, 56 minutes
This book is written in free
verse. I listened to it on CD and heard
the poetry of Woodson’s words. This book
is also on the list of The Best 75 Books in the Last 75 Years. Quite an accomplishment! And I agree that it belongs on this list. I was enchanted by Woodson’s memoir about
growing up in South Carolina, Ohio, and New York during the Civil Rights
Movement. Woodson is also a winner of
many awards – The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing
for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors for After Tupac and D
Foster, Feathers, and Show Way, and a two-time finalist for the National Book
Award for Locomotion and Hush. Other
awards include the Coretta Scott King Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
for Miracle’s Boys. In 2014, she was
short-listed for the Hans Christian Anderson Award for her lasting contributions
to children’s literature.
I want to read more by this enriching
author.
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