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She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. I just wish this was longer. I did find the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts.

Join the discussion. Woodson has an infallible ear for dialogue among children, in particular the way they talk often with naive brilliance about sex. Woodson, Jacqueline.

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Woodson has the uncanny ability to capture the narrators life like it was a memoir. Jacqueline Woodson 82 books 8, followers. Community Reviews. Show full review. It read like the thought process as the narrator tries to figure out life and its brutal. Loading interface Though the narrator is a child for most of the book, this is definitely not a children's or young adult book.

Domestic abuse, anti-gay treatment of a character, family turmoil. Intimate knowledge that is doled out bit by bit. This hard-to-find debut from Jacqueline Woodson written for adults, much in the same vein as her much lauded release Another Brooklyn last year proves that her talents were with her very early on. Published by Plume Books , Condition: Acceptable.

It's been a long time since I read this book, but its one of Jacqueline Woodson's only novels 'adult' novels. In her first adult novel, Woodson--already acclaimed in both the African-American and lesbian and gay worlds for her award-winning short fiction--paints a moving portrait of childhood, family, and community that takes into account both the destruction wrought by war and the darker sides of emotional and sexual tension.

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I believe the story is looking on this moment of time growing hip in the s and how growing up in a single household and how common these occurrences were during this time, however, it was pushed on the reader too hard and this story is not for everyone. She received a B. Probably didn't benefit from being read quickly in one sitting.

Avsnitt 1. It was not pretty for me when my mother found out. Better World Books. Published by Penguin Publishing Group , Avsnitt 2. Amazing book, read it well over 10 years ago. Brown Girl Dreaming won the E.