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Jacqueline Woodson
In this Walter Award-winning novel, National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we…
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A powerful and gripping story from multi-award-winning Jacqueline Woodson about a boy who loves his dad more than anything, and how a family can find happiness in the darkest moments.
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Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael Lopez's dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.
From acclaimed writer Jacqueline Woodson, comes this empowering tale about embracing difference and celebrating what makes you YOU.
An unforgettable New York Times bestseller from multi-award-winning Jacqueline Woodson, celebrating the healing that occurs when six children discover a harbour where they can express their feelings and fears.
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Julie Murray
This title will introduce readers to the life and works of Jacqueline Woodson, including Brown Girl Dreaming and Miracle’s Boys. Complete with great photographs and a timeline! Aligned to Common…
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Laura Sullivan
Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery honoree, Woodson’s works, including Miracle’s Boys, is one with her strong African-American themes.
Lisa M Bolt Simons
Young readers are introduced to Jacqueline Woodson, whose writings mirror her own experiences growing up.
Eve Ensler
This expanded edition of the bestseller … features a diverse set of new monologues in addition to those previously included, as well as a new introduction by a leader in…
Lois Thomas Stover
As Jacqueline Woodson has taken an increasing number of risks with her themes, she has also continued to develop as an artist. This volume includes a critical analysis of how…
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Told through letters from 12-year-old Lonnie to his younger sister, this thought-provoking companion to Locomotion tackles important issues in captivating, lyrical language.
This 2002 National Book Award finalist is reissued with a new look. When Toswiah Green’s policeman father testifies against a fellow officer, the family members must change their identities and…
This beautiful sequel to If You Come Softly explores the experiences of those left behind after tragedy. It is a novel in which through hope, understanding and love, healing begins.
Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a 15-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. Feni decides she will…
Staggerlee is used to being alone. As the granddaughter of celebrities and the daughter of an interracial couple in an all-black town, she has become adept at isolating herself from…
At the end of I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, Marie’s friend Lena and her little sister Dion ran away to escape their abusive father. Now, disguised as boys…
For use in schools and libraries only. In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to…
A New York Times bestseller by Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the National Book Award
Writer Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her childhood in free verse.
Originally published: New York: Putnam’s, 2002.
A new love is special and rare, but the world around Ellie and Miah doesn’t see it like that. All they see is race: Miah is black and Ellie is…
Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge –Copyright page.
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.
Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.
Maizon takes a big step when she goes to boarding school at Blue Hill on a scholarship. There are only five black studenst there, and the other four are from…
In this continuation of Woodson’s trilogy, Margaret and Maizon are back together on Madison Street, but their friendship is different now. Margaret needs more time alone, and it’s not just…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off. -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York…
Ellie, who wrestles with private demons, and Jeremiah, one of the few African-American students and their private school, meet and fall in love. When Jeremiah is shot and killed, Ellie…
These classic, award-winning novels by three-time Newbery Honor winner Jacqueline Woodson are now available with fresh new looks.
Hurricane Katrina took her mother and grandmother. And even though Laurel Daneau has moves on to a new life - one that includes a new best friend, a spot on…
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2016 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. –Title page verso.
In this Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 12-year-old Marie is African American. She befriends Lena, a white girl, because both have lost their mothers. Lena has a terrifying secret, and…
A Newbery Honor book. A lot can happen to three girls in a two-year period–especially when the rap music of Tupac Shakur is the glue holding them together.
Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she’s still reeling from the loss of her mother and grandmother during Hurricane Katrina. Laurel’s…
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming…
The compelling story of a young Black girl growing up in 1960-70s America - a multi-award winning New York Times bestseller.
In her first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming, Woodson, the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, celebrates the healing that can occur when a…
Winner of the 2001 Coretta Scott King Award, in Miracle’s Boys, three young outsiders struggle to make it through when their parents die and leave them to survive on their…
