Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Memoir in verse
For our final week of Poetry Month, we have an award-winning memoir in verse. Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood in the ’60s and ’70s, and her experiences growing up as a Black girl during those tumultuous years.
All written in verse, this book creates vivid portraits of Jacqueline’s family, friends, and surroundings, from the humid green of South Carolina to the gray sidewalks of Brooklyn. At the center of it all is Jacqueline – a narrator who is hopeful and serious and funny, often all at the same time – and her desire to become a writer.
Which, of course, she did.