Brown Girl Dreaming
A book for ages 10 and up about Jacqueline Woodson (childhood memoir in verse)
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- A book about Jacqueline Woodson (childhood memoir in verse), by Jacqueline Woodson.
Why it matters
- For families listening together with children aged 10 and up.
Key facts
- Ages
- 10 and up; Common Sense Media 10+1
- Audiobook read by
- Jacqueline Woodson2
- Audiobook length
- 3 h 55 min2
- Published
- 2014, Nancy Paulsen Books1
- Award
- Sibert Honor 20153
- Content to know about
- Growing up Black in the Jim Crow South and 1960s New York; mentions violent reactions to civil rights marchers; deaths of relatives, divorce, illness; very little language (mild name-calling).1
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- Jacqueline Woodson
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