by Jacqueline Woodson · Nancy Paulsen Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780147515827
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Jacqueline Woodson's memoir in verse shares her experience growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, grappling with the remnants of Jim Crow laws and becoming aware of the Civil Rights movement. Through vivid and accessible poems, Woodson explores themes of identity, belonging, and the power of finding one's voice through writing. An inspiring story about childhood and self-discovery.
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She accepted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
