Brown Girl Dreaming

Woodson, J. (2014).Brown Girl Dreaming. New York, NY: Penguin.

Summary:

The brown girl dreaming is Jacqueline Wood. She was born in Ohio during the time that segregation was very evident in the 1960's. Many of her family members endured slavery. She recalls the many visits to her grandparents house, their move to New York after her parents separated. There she meets Maria, her best friend. In 4th grade she begins to read poems by Langston Hughes and begins to write poems herself. Her uncle Robert Leon Irby was sent to prison because of walking the wide road. Her teacher Ms. Viro saw in her a writing gift and called her a writer. She found what she has been dreaming of and that is becoming a writer,

Strength:

This book showed the reader how listening and viewing life's events can empower someone to write. Jacqueline took notes on specific events in her life that brought joy, pain, and tears and put them down on paper to create a memoir of historical events in her life.

Award:

Coretta Scott King Award for Author (2015)

Connection

Booktrailer:

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