Brown girl dreaming /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodson, Jacqueline (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Puffin Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Woodson, Jacqueline > Juvenile poetry.
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.
African American women authors.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Children > Books and reading.
Identity (Psychology) in children.
Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980 > Juvenile poetry.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980 > Biography.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Juvenile works.
Poetry.
Table of 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.

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