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(0)Jacqueline Woodson
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A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A Seattle Times pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything-until it wasn't. For...
4) Locomotion
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Puffin Books/Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2010, c2003
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In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
5) Feathers
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2007
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When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other. Moving forward and backward in time, [the] novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child"--Publisher marketing.
10) Remember us
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's...
12) Show Way
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Quilt making has been passed down through eight generations of Soonie's family. Messages were carefully stitched into each quilt, called a Show Way, mapping the family's journey from slavery to the present day.
13) Show Way
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Quilt making has been passed down through eight generations of Soonie's family. Messages were carefully stitched into each quilt, called a Show Way, mapping the family's journey from slavery to the present day. Includes an interview with Jacqueline Woodson.
14) Lena
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Lena and her younger sister Dion feel they have no other choice but to leave their home and take to the open road. Their mother is dead, and their father has done terrible things to the girls. They know from experience that if they're put into foster homes, they will be separated. And all they really have is each other. So the girls head out, with only a vague plan of finding their mama's people. Life on the road is full of danger, but Lena knows...
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The story of one family's journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family's history. But for three geenrations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump rope games to tying suitcases onto a car for the big move north to New York City, and even a family reunion where that first little girl is now a grandmother....
16) The Other Side
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Clover always wondered why there was a fence that separated the black side of town from the white side. When a young white girl from the other side starts to sit on the fence, Clover's curiosity, and friendship, develops.
17) The Distance
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CJ just blew the half-mile relay for his track team, but the race on his mind is the one that's happening off the field in this short story from all-star author Jacqueline Woodson.
18) Harbor Me
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.Cast of Narrators:N'Jameh Camara, as Haley Jose Carrera, as Tiago Dean Flanagan, as Ashton Angel Romero, as Esteban Toshi Widoff-Woodson, as Holly Mikelle Wright-Matos, as Amari and also featuring the author, Jacqueline Woodson, as Ms. Laverne
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Logan saga volume 2
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. One of the author's novels about the Logan family.