Book
Brown Girl Dreaming
- Published
- 2014
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 336
- Words
- 30318
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.3
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 990L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–17
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Jacqueline Woodson felt halfway home in each place. Through free verse, she shares what it was like to grow up as a Black child in the 1960s and 1970s. Book contains violence and themes of bullying and racism.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780399252518
- ISBN-10
- 0399252517
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNew York CityNonfictionPeople-African AmericanPoetryRacismUnited States-South CarolinaVerse