Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson
Juvenile Book Club Kit

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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.



Juvenile Book Club Kits


Advancing Racial Equity

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy


  • This Book is Antiracist


  • Let's Talk About Race


  • Ghost Boys


  • New Kid


  • Something Happened in Our Town


  • Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness


  • Strictly No Elephants


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  • I Walk with Vanessa


  • All the Colors We Are


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