Brown Girl Dreaming

"Dreams of a Black Girl"—a powerful memoir by renowned American poet and writer Jacqueline Woodson. In her book, she tells what it’s like to be an African American and grow up in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Every line in this work is a glimpse of hope in a child’s soul, searching for her place in the world. Jacqueline Woodson was born in a country where people were divided into black and white, in the year, as she puts it, when “the South erupted.” She made an enormous journey from a small girl in Ohio who struggled in school to a free woman who found the courage to write.