Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson pioneer This imagination-sparking picture book belongs

This imagination-sparking picture book belongs on every child's bookshelf

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson pioneer This imagination-sparking picture book belongsJacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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