Another Brooklyn Lib/E (Audiobook)

from VioletBramble

This is the story of August and her best friends; Sylvia, Gigi and Angela, growing up on the mean streets of 1970s Bushwick, Brooklyn. Each of the girls has family problems that they keep hidden from each other- for the most part. But when these four girls hang out together they know that they ha...

from quondame

Growing up a motherless black girl in 1970s Brooklyn, August has friends who lives get bent or ended in ways she narrowly escapes in part because of her father is a good, if mostly absent man, and she has her love and connection to her brother when her friends troubles overwhelm them. Intense and...

from RealLifeReading

Jacqueline Woodson is best known for her memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, which won the 2014 National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, an NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. Her latest book, Another Brooklyn, isn't in verse but it somehow reads like...

from krau0098

Series Info/Source: I borrowed this as an audiobook from my library. Audiobook Quality (4/5): The narrator does an excellent job reading this. No complaints about the audiobook quality. Thoughts: I picked this up on a true whim. I wanted a very short story or novella to listen to on audiobook a...

from lauralkeet

How does she do it? In less than 200 pages, Jacqueline Wilson has painted an evocative portrait of a young woman coming of age in Bushwick in the 1970s. The setting, the people, and the emotions were all so vivid; I felt transported back to that place and time. At the center of the novel is Augus...