Brown Girl Dreaming
Woodson, J. (2014) Brown Girl Dreamin g. New York, NY: Penguin Written in verse, this memoir is about award winning author Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood. It follows her life from birth to a point in her elementary years. From the point of view of a child you learn about the civil rights movement, and how it affected people in the North and South. It covers her young life and her progression as a writer. I found it interesting to hear about her life in that I could compare it to my own. Hearing about her childhood in a different time, a different race, and religion really made me think about how my own life could be different. I listened to the audiobook version of this novel, read by Jaqueline Woodson herself. She is a good author, but not so much a good reader. This is something she actually talks about in her book. I would recommend reading this book rather than listening to it.