Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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 Rights movement ...
Audience
990L Lexile
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 5 168140
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 5 168140
Note
Downloadable audio file.
Performer
Read by the author.
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"Books on Tape"--Container.
Summary
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.