Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir by Jacqueline Woodson. She tells of her childhood as an African American in the American Northeast and South in the 1960s. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, to the descendants of former slaves.
Winner of 2015 John Newbery Medal, 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work & 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Genre: Autobiography, Poetry
Themes: African American Narrative, Family Life, 1960s America
RESOURCES:
Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation
Woodson Reading her Novel