Brown Girl Dreaming cooking As a child in Georgia

As a child in Georgia

"Everyone knows there are planets and stars and space rocks

that it destroys the universe--and will surely melt readers' minds and hearts

Patricia Valdez sheds light on a little known but extraordinary story

Brown Girl Dreaming cooking As a child in GeorgiaA National Book Award Winner A Coretta Scott King Award Winner A Newbery Honor Book Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that 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