Bibliograph

Brown girl dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

Type

Label

Brown girl dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsgenealogical tables

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 10 up

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brown girl dreaming

Responsibility statement

Jacqueline Woodson

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

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification