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Brown Girl Dreaming [Large Print]

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline

Follett Number: 1198DL5
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017
Format: 411 pages (large print) : illustrations and genealogical tables ; 23 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-43284-315-1
ISBN-10: 1-43284-315-X
LCCN: 2017-024042
Dewey: 811
Classifications: Autobiography; Large Print; Nonfiction

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Subjects:
African American Women Authors Biography Poetry
African American Women Biography Poetry
American Authors Biography Poetry
Autobiographies
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Women
Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
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Poetry
Woodson, Jacqueline Poetry
"Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge"--Title page verso. "The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--Provided by publisher.

From the publisher:
Winner of the National Book Award, Newbery Honor Medal, and Coretta Scott King AwardReceived Seven starred reviewsNew York Times BestsellerIn vivid poems, Jacqueline Woodson 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 Rights movement. Touching and powerful, her poems are accessible and emotionally charged glimpses into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.

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