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5*****
Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning author and poet. This memoir of her childhood, growing up in the turbulent 1960s is written entirely in free verse.
In it Woodson explores family dynamics; the differences between “the North” (Brooklyn) and “the South” (South Carolina), between generations, between religious beliefs; and the hopes, ambitions and obstacles to success faced by a young black girl in 1960s America. The language is appropriate and acc ...more
5*****
Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning author and poet. This memoir of her childhood, growing up in the turbulent 1960s is written entirely in free verse.
In it Woodson explores family dynamics; the differences between “the North” (Brooklyn) and “the South” (South Carolina), between generations, between religious beliefs; and the hopes, ambitions and obstacles to success faced by a young black girl in 1960s America. The language is appropriate and acc ...more
After reading this, I want to hug young Jacqueline and tell her how brilliant and amazing she is and how she'll get even more brilliant and amazing as she grows up.
This was such a lovely reading experience, and I think the choice to tell the story of her young life in verse was a great one. Woodson's poetry is just the right balance of straight-forward and lyrical, so that it never got so flowery that you couldn't figure out what she was talking about, but it also didn't just feel like prose wit ...more
This was such a lovely reading experience, and I think the choice to tell the story of her young life in verse was a great one. Woodson's poetry is just the right balance of straight-forward and lyrical, so that it never got so flowery that you couldn't figure out what she was talking about, but it also didn't just feel like prose wit ...more
I listened to this book on audio in about two days. I’m glad I went the audio route because it was someone telling me their own story rather than me reading it. I thought the writing was beautiful and the characters I won’t soon forget.
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