Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)

from abergsman

I very rarely read books written in verse, but when I do, I am usually pleasantly surprised. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse form. The whole middle-grade book is written in simple, free verse poems.Simple, but astoundingly beautiful. Succinct is probably a more apt description th...

from Calavari

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson I've read a lot of memoirs, but none that were done as a series of poems before. It really is a beautiful way to convey your story. My favorite was the first one, about the day she was born. Woodson brings her birth together with the state of black i...

from Jolynne

This collection of poems brought back so many memories. Memories of grandparents and how much I was loved, memories of summers in the south (Oklahoma). Memories of a religion forced that I did not want, bubble gum cigarettes, music that I loved, Latina friends growing up, power to the people, a M...

from lauralkeet

This "memoir in verse" is a profound account of growing up black in America in the 1970s. Woodson was born in Ohio, moved to South Carolina when she was three, living with her maternal grandparents. Her days were spent playing in the warm southern sun, and "social life" was grounded in religion. ...

from RidgewayGirl

This is the story of Jacqueline Woodson's childhood. It's structured as a series of vignettes told in free, unrhymed verse that lends an immediacy to each memory. Woodson was born in Ohio, but grew up in Greenville, SC and Brooklyn, NY in the 1960s and 1970s. There's a great deal about the Civil ...