Brown Girl Dreaming The Misadventures of Awkward Black

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no one--awkward or cool

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Brown Girl Dreaming The Misadventures of Awkward BlackJacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both