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I think this would be great for upper elementary students!

This book can classify as nonfiction and as poetry. It is an awesome and very informational read!

This book won the EB White Read Aloud Award. This series of books from Jacqueline Woodson are amazing. They are all great reads and basing on a story with a little girl between her father in Ohio and her mother in South Carolina.

Coretta Scott King Author Award Book
October 11th, 2016
Brown Girl Dreaming is a chapter book written in poetry form, that discussed what it is like to grown up as an African American in the 60‘s/70‘s. Jacqueline wanted to bring light to living during the times of Jim Crows laws and Civil right movements, through her poem writing.

Title: brown Girl Dreaming
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Published: Aug. 28th, 2014
Genre: children's lit, autobiography
Awards: National Book Award Winner for Young People‘s Literature
Summary: This is a story about the author Jacqueline Woodson from birth to age 10. this time setting was in 1963 which was during the peak of the civil rights movement. This story talks about Jacqueline's life during this time and how she grew up.

Brown Girl Dreaming written by Jacqueline Woodson was published in 2014 and talks about the life of the author growing up in rural Southeastern Ohio. It represents a lower-income black family, and the struggles she faced. This book won a Newbery award, and is a great read!

The author used this book as a memoir to tell the reader about her childhood as an African American in the American Northeast and South in the 1960s. She talks about her experiences and how they made her feel. She talks about how racism and segregation laws affected her and her family. All of this is told through poetry.

“Even though the laws have changed my grandmother still takes us to the back of the bus when we go downtown in the rain”

It‘s a unique chapter book that uses poetry to tell the author‘s life story.

This book was first published in 2014 and received multiple awards such as Newberry Honor, National book award, and Coretta Scott King award. This story is unique to most chapter books because it uses poetry to convey the authors story. It‘s a moving book about life growing up during segregation and how Jacqueline Woodson became the author she is today.

Fabulous, just fabulous.

#poemaday #poetry #poetrymatters

📕Brown Girl Dreaming
🖊Geraldine Brooks
🎥Bottle Shock
🎤Garth Brooks (no relation!)
🎶Butterflies and Hurricanes (Muse)
#manicmonday #letterB

Slowly but surely I‘m catching up with #letterb of the #alphabetgame

This book is especially good on audio.

Listen. Just listen.

Reminder to myself to get outside. Be still. Quiet the mind. Relax. #poetry #poemaday

#toldinverse #bookmoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#chelseaclinton spoke with/ interviewed #jacquelinewoodson about being a female brown author on her podcast #infact

#paper #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#WeekendReads
1. Poetry: brown girl dreaming, Print/NF: Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellman, Audiobook: Stand-In by Lily Chu; about to start City of Girls via eBook.
2. Longest book so far: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple, 455 pages
3. All the stories in collection Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

@rachelsbrittain

This image is my “Poetry Bookmark”. In some ways, it is my Coronavirus Journey Log. What you see is every poetry collection I have made my way through, a poem every day, since 1/1/2020. I am shocked and/or humbled that I have touched this slip every day for 800 days. (I looked it up.) 😳

I started the tagged book today.

#poetry #poetrymatters #readict

Initially, the style of this memoir felt disjointed to me, but once I got used to it, I started to appreciate how much like memory the words flow. Woodson takes us from the innocence of youth, where everything feels like it will be okay, even the scary things, into the years when it begins to become clear that adults don't necessarily have all the answers or best guidance, and when Woodson starts to develop her identity as a writer.

My little avocado tree was my view while reading the tagged book today. It takes some imagination to put myself in South Carolina or in Brooklyn on a SoCal day like today, but I'm enjoying the book.

#newbeginnings #dream
This does not quite fit the prompt, but it was the first book that popped in my head-🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#12booksof21 #12booksof2021

May:
I‘ll always remember this book as the one I read while waiting for my post vaccination fevers to go away. This one just took me away to another world.

Book 4 for 2021

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I read this memoir in verse for a class, and I greatly enjoyed it! Woodson has a way with words that I admire.

Fit a short audiobook in before the end of August. Loved this story told in verse. Read by Woodson. Her story of her childhood & the beginnings of her interest in writing.

A book of beautiful poetry and prose!

@AmyG thank you my friend!!! Thoughtful and perfect ❤️ I‘m so glad to have this book and really appreciate that you chose to send it to me ❤️

Hahah now that‘s just rude. (Look at the underlined bit)

Needed to post the review for my final May read. I finished right before I fell asleep, spurred along by the #authoramonth challenge. So glad that I did!
I loved the lyrical format. It created a dreamlike feeling for this autobiographical work. Quick read. Haunting. Hopeful. My heart was touched by Jackie‘s story.
So happy for her success!
@Soubhiville

I did manage to read three of Jacqueline Woodson‘s books for #authoramonth ! #AAMJW #jacquelinewoodson @Soubhiville

That time I met Jacqueline Woodson: she was so kind and friendly! This was at 2015 ALA, when she was being celebrated for so many awards for Brown Girl Dreaming! I‘ve also seen her speak a couple times since then, and she is so inspiring! #AuthorAMonth #AAMJW

Had it not been for #AuthorAMonth I likely wouldn't have picked this up, but it was a swift moving and interesting glimpse into the author's childhood in the 1960s and '70s. A memoir in verse, Woodson tells about her family's brief time in Ohio, then the years in South Carolina before moving up to New York City. Each short poem gives a few words about a person, place, thing, or feeling and though it is low on a continuous narrative, ⬇️

Not my fave of hers but still presented in an interesting way — separate poems outlining her early life between South Carolina & New York.

#AuthorAMonth Woodson tells the story of her growing up in verse.The rich details & the beauty of the writing made me pause & re-read.Woodson writes elegantly of day to day life , struggles & joys, wisdom of family members determined to have a decent life. I really enjoyed the contrast of the family‘s life in the south vs.NYC. You get such a feeling for the times , songs that were popular & the rise of civil rights movements.A rewarding read !

This was lovely ♥️ how does she say so much in so few words.
Excellent. #authoramonth

I like that Woodson decided to write her memoir not in the typical way but rather in verse. I found the story of her childhood and family fascinating and engaging. Woodson is such a gifted writer who is able to write across age ranges and in various formats, something not all writers can do. #AuthorAMonth #NutsInMay

I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr

Day 77

Needed a short break from Far From the Tree, so I picked up this fantastic #audiobook memoir.

Woodson tells the story of her childhood from her birth & parents divorce in Ohio to her young childhood in rural South Carolina with her grandparents while her mother tried to establish a place in Brooklyn to her family‘s eventual settlement there. Through poetic prose she writes of teachers who pointed her to writing and growing up a Jehovah‘s Witness.

This memoir in verse was amazing. What took me so long to read a book by Jacqueline Woodson. #AuthorAMonth2021

My two favorite things about this #audiobook are that it's autobiography in verse and it's read by the author.

#AuthorAMonth with @Soubhiville

#BookSpinBingo free space
@TheAromaofBooks

A memoir in verse, Brown Girl describes Woodson‘s childhood, relationships, and the turmoil of the 1960s and 70s. Audiobook read by author

#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
#authoramonth2021 @Soubhiville

Infinite words

Excellent book about the author‘s childhood and family. While it‘s written in prose, don‘t let that deter you. It reads beautifully. There is a reason it won so many awards.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

National Bk Award Winner, Newbery Medal Award, & NAACP Award for Outstanding Literature, P/LC/RA/Memoir, an exquisite metaphorical verse Woodson weaves, a patchwork of her life experiences. From her supportive, loving maternal grandparents, her mother's insistence on good grammar, to the lifetime friend she meets in NY, that covers readers with warmth & sensitivity no child should miss. NY Times bestseller, an addition for a classroom library.

This B, Newberry Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, National Book Award, and New York Nest Time Seller book, Brown Girl Dreaming is about the childhood biography of Jacqueline Woodson. The book tells the story of Jaqueline and her family how they struggled through the Civil Rights movement and how Jaqueline's mom had to move multiple times to find what was best for her kids. Jaqueline's struggle for writing pushes her to become a writer.