Brown Girl Dreaming
by Woodson, Jacqueline
Robert F. Sibert Informational Award/HonPublishers Weekly Best BookBCCB Blue Ribbon BookSLJ Best BookNewbery HonorBoston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsCoretta Scott King Award/HonorsBiographies/Autobiographies
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AR Book Level
5.3
AR Points
5
Word Count
30,318
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
168140 EN
About this book
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.
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