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Newbery honor 2015.
This was an excellent memoir and one I enjoyed reading in verse.
This was an excellent memoir and one I enjoyed reading in verse.
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
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I personally am not a fan of novels written in verse. However, this particular novel met two reading challenge requirements and it sounded like a very good novel to read.
As I predicted, I found the format to be.... not ideal? Woodson has an interesting story to tell, but I felt like it got lost in the format of the novel.
The other issue I had with the novel is that there isn't really a story necessarily. Yes, it is about Woodson's childhood and her family. I understand that. But there wasn't ne ...more
As I predicted, I found the format to be.... not ideal? Woodson has an interesting story to tell, but I felt like it got lost in the format of the novel.
The other issue I had with the novel is that there isn't really a story necessarily. Yes, it is about Woodson's childhood and her family. I understand that. But there wasn't ne ...more
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