Brown Girl Dreaming (Large Print / Paperback)
Staff Reviews
With each impeccably chosen word in this novel-in-verse, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her early life, growing up surrounded by family in South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York, in the racially charged 60s and 70s. Through moments both large and small, we meet the little girl who will become a gifted author overcome her difficulty learning to read to tell the stories that have always “run like rivers through her veins.” As gentle, heartbreaking and heartwarming as her picture books, brown girl dreaming is a real gem.
Recommended for 4th grade and above.