
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson (2014)
“A childhood lived across the civil rights era, told in poems so precise they feel like memory itself — and a love letter to the power of words when the world refuses to hear you.”
EraContemporary
Pages337
Difficulty★☆☆☆☆ Accessible
AP Appearances2
Major Themes
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race
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identity
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family
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storytelling
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