Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson
Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: 5-9 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 168140 / Reading Counts!: reading level:8.4 / points:9.0 / quiz:Q64354 Lexile:990L
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A President Obama "O" Book Club pick
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.
