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Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
LIBRA PS3573.O64524 Z46 2014
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Van Pelt Library PS3573.O64524 Z46 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Juvenile poetry.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Biography.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- Woodson, Jacqueline.
- Woodson, Jacqueline--Juvenile poetry.
- African American women authors--Biography--Juvenile poetry.
- African American women authors.
- Identity (Psychology) in children--Juvenile poetry.
- Identity (Psychology) in children.
- Identity (Psychology) in children--Biography.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Juvenile poetry.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Biography.
- Children--Books and reading--Juvenile poetry.
- Children.
- Children--Books and reading--Biography.
- Woodson, Jacqueline--Poetry.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Poetry.
- African American women authors--Biography--Poetry.
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- African American women authors--Biography.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile poetry--20th century.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Young adult poetry.
- Young adult nonfiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]
- 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. 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.
- "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. Woodson's eloquent 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. Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story. but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery."-The New York Times Book Review"-- Provided by publisher.
- "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"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Family tree
- "Hold fast to dreams" / Langston Hughes. Part I. I am born: February 12, 1963
- Second daughter's second day on earth
- A girl named Jack
- The Woodsons of Ohio
- The ghosts of the Nelson house
- It'll be scary sometimes
- Football dreams
- Other people's memory
- No returns
- How to listen #1
- Uncle Odell
- Good news
- My mother and Grace
- Each winter
- Journey
- Greenville, South Carolina, 1965
- Home
- The cousins
- Night bus
- After Greenville #1
- Rivers
- Leaving Columbus.
- Part II. The stories of South Carolina run like rivers: Our names
- Ohio behind us
- The garden
- Gunnar's children
- At the end of the day
- Daywork
- Lullaby
- Bible times
- The reader
- The beginning
- Hope
- The almost friends
- The right way to speak
- The candy lady
- South Carolina at war
- The training
- The blanket
- Miss Bell and the marchers
- How to listen #2
- Hair night
- Family names - American dream
- The fabric store
- Ghosts
- The leavers
- The beginning of leaving
- As a child, I smelled the air
- Harvest time
- Grown folks stories
- Tobacco
- How to listen #3
- My mother leaving Greenville
- Halfway home #1
- My mother looks back on Greenville
- The last fireflies
- Changes
- Sterling High School, Greenville
- Faith
- The stories Cora tells
- Hall street
- Soon
- How I learn the days of the week
- Ribbons
- Two gods, two worlds
- What God knows
- New playmates
- Down the road
- God's promise
- The other infinity
- Sometimes, no words are needed
- The letter
- One morning, late winter
- New York baby
- Leaving Greenville
- Roman.
- Part III. Followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom: New York City
- Brooklyn, New York
- Herzl Street
- The Johnny pump
- Genetics
- Caroline but we called her Aunt Kay, some memories
- Moving again
- Composition notebook
- On paper
- Saturday morning
- First grade
- Another Kingdom Hall
- Flag
- Because we're witnesses
- Brooklyn rain
- Another way
- Gifted
- Sometimes
- Uncle Robert
- Wishes
- Believing
- Off-key
- Eve and the snake
- Our father, fading away
- Halfway home #2
- The paint eater
- Chemistry
- Baby in the house - Going home again
- Home again to Hall street
- Mrs. Hughes's house
- How to listen #4
- Field service
- Sunday afternoon on the front porch
- Home then home again.
- Part IV. Deep in my heart, I do believe: Family
- One place - Maria
- How to listen #5
- Tomboy
- Game over
- Lessons
- Trading places
- Writing #1
- Late autumn
- The other Woodson
- Writing #2 - Birch tree poem
- How to listen #6
- Reading
- Stevie and me
- When I tell my family
- Daddy Gunnar
- Hope onstage
- Daddy this time
- What everybody knows now
- End of summer
- Far rockaway
- Fresh air
- P.S. 106 haiku
- Learning from Langston
- The selfish giant
- The butterfly poems
- Six minutes
- First book
- John's bargain store
- New girl
- Pasteles & pernil
- Curses
- Afros
- Graffiti
- Music
- Rikers Island
- Moving upstate
- On teh bus to Dannemora
- Too good
- Dannemora
- Not Robert
- Mountain song
- Poem on paper
- Daddy
- How to listen #7.
- Part V. Ready to change the world: After Greenville #2
- Mimosa tree
- Bubble-gum cigarettes
- What's left behind
- The stories I tell
- How to listen #8
- Faith & faith & reasons
- What if?
- Bushwick history lesson
- How to listen #9
- The promise land
- Power to the people
- Say it loud
- Maybe Mecca
- The revolution
- How to listen #10
- A writer
- Every wish, one dream
- The earth from far away
- What I believe
- Each world.
- Author's note
- Thankfuls
- Family photos.
- Notes:
- National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature, 2014
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Winner, 2015
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens, Winner, 2015
- Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015
- Newbery Honor, 2015
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2015
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2015
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- Banks Collection copies 1 & 2: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy 2 has bookmark with miniature eyeglass frames attached.
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780399252518
- 0399252517
- 9781432850425
- 1432850423
- OCLC:
- 870919395
- Online:
- Author's website
- Additional Information at Google Books
- Image
- Cover image
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