If you've been waiting for Jacqueline Woodson's (Another Brooklyn; After Tupac and D Foster) award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming to be released in paperback, your moment has arrived.
Originally published by Nancy Paulsen Books, Brown Girl Dreaming--Woodson's memoir in verse about growing up as an African American girl in the 1960s and 1970s in Ohio, S.C., and Brooklyn, N.Y.--won the 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature; a 2015 Newbery Honor and a 2015 Coretta Scott King Award. As Shelf Awareness reviewer Kyla Paterno wrote, "Woodson offers readers an accessible, first-hand look at African American childhood during decades of tremendous turmoil and change.... [Her] beautiful words and fantastic characterization make this story a true gem." This handsome 2016 paperback edition includes seven new original poems by Woodson. --Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Awareness