Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book) by Woodson, Jacqueline -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Additional Praise for BROWN GIRL DREAMING Also By Jacqueline Woodson Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Family Tree Epigraph PART I

february 12, 1963 second daughter’s second day on earth a girl named jack the woodsons of ohio the ghosts of the nelsonville house it’ll be scary sometimes football dreams other people’s memory no returns how to listen #1 uncle odell good news my mother and grace each winter journey greenville, south carolina, 1963 home the cousins night bus after greenville #1 rivers leaving columbus

PART II

our names ohio behind us the garden gunnar’s children at the end of the day daywork lullaby bible times the reader the beginning hope the almost friends the right way to speak the candy lady south carolina at war the training the blanket miss bell and the marchers how to listen #2 hair night family names american dream the fabric store ghosts the leavers the beginning of the leaving as a child, i smelled the air harvest time grown folks’ stories tobacco how to listen #3 my mother leaving greenville halfway home #1 my mother looks back on greenville the last fireflies changes sterling high school, greenville faith the stories cora tells hall street soon how i learn the days of the week ribbons two gods. two worlds what god knows new playmates down the road god’s promise the other infinity sometimes, no words are needed the letter one morning, late winter new york baby leaving greenville roman

PART III

new york city brooklyn, new york herzl street the johnny pump genetics caroline but we called her aunt kay, some memories moving again composition notebook on paper saturday morning first grade another kingdom hall flag because we’re witnesses brooklyn rain another way gifted sometimes uncle robert wishes believing off-key eve and the snake our father, fading away halfway home #2 the paint eater chemistry baby in the house going home again home again to hall street mrs. hughes’s house how to listen #4 field service sunday afternoon on the front porch home then home again

PART IV

family one place maria how to listen #5 tomboy game over lessons trading places writing #1 late autumn the other woodson writing #2 birch tree poem how to listen #6 reading stevie and me when i tell my family daddy gunnar hope onstage daddy this time what everybody knows now end of summer far rockaway fresh air p.s. 106 haiku learning from langston the selfish giant the butterfly poems six minutes first book john’s bargain store new girl pasteles & pernil curses afros graffiti music rikers island moving upstate on the bus to dannemora too good dannemora not robert mountain song poem on paper daddy how to listen #7

PART V

after greenville #2 mimosa tree bubble-gum cigarettes what’s left behind the stories i tell how to listen #8 fate & faith & reasons what if . . . ? bushwick history lesson how to listen #9 the promise land power to the people say it loud maybe mecca the revolution how to listen #10 a writer every wish, one dream the earth from far away what i believe each world

author’s note thankfuls family photos Seven New Poems by Jacqueline Woodson

if after in the backyard, under the mimosa tree my grandmother, at the window how to listen two journeys brown girl dreaming

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