Brown Girl Dreaming in Around the Year in 52 Books

Jul 31, 2020 Book Concierge rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography, memoir, young-adult, audio, south-carolina, new-york, concierge, strong-women, library, poetry

Digital audio performed by the author.
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

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Aug 03, 2015 Penny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: children-mg

You are a writer, and I'm happier because of it.

I love this book, it's beautifully written, I recommended to everyone!

~~I wanted to say is 4.5*, but only due to my crazy I don't like to give 5*, but could't think of a single reason why I shouldn't give it all 5, this was really fantastic.~~ ...more

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Mar 14, 2019 Tweller83 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, newbery, memoir-bio

Newbery honor 2015.
This was an excellent memoir and one I enjoyed reading in verse.

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May 18, 2020 Penny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2020, 2020-book-bingo

I love everything I've read by Jacqueline Wilson and this childhood memoir written in free verse is no exception. It tells of her young life divided between the free, or at least freer north and the times she l lived and visited her grandparents in the south. Times when, even after segregation was no longer official her grandmother still rode the back of the bus to make sure there was no trouble, still didn't try to eat at the counter in Woolworth's etc. Jacqueline knew from very early on, that ...more

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