Brown Girl Dreaming Children's Humor the young people in these

the young people in these sixteen stories find that getting a period brings not only changes to their bodies

single parents

a mouse who specializes in covert operations (and knitting too)

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *

comes a chilling new contemporary fable about art

Brown Girl Dreaming Children's Humor the young people in theseJacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama "O" Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil