Brown Girl Dreaming - by Jacqueline WoodsonThis item is not available

This memoir-in-verse is a powerful and moving account of the author's childhood in mesmerizing verse.

With exquisite metaphorical verse, Woodson weaves a patchwork of her life experience, covering readers with a warmth and sensitivity no child should miss.

Her perspective on the volatile era in which she grew up is thoughtfully expressed in powerfully effective verse, making this book an extraordinary--indeed brilliant--portrait of a writer as a young girl.

Readers will trace her development as a nascent writer, from her early love of stories through her struggles to learn to read and the thrill of her first blank composition book, to her realization that "words are [her] brilliance." This is a book full of poems that cry out to be learned by heart.

These are poems that will, for years to come, be stored in our bloodstream.