Book Résumé Jacqueline Woodson: Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, she wears a special custom-made dress – the very same dress that was sewn for Melody’s mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the […]
Book Résumé Jacqueline Woodson: Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider. (Fiction, Children) Report Censorship
Book Résumé Jacqueline Woodson: “When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they’re together, it’s safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world”– (Fiction, Children) Report Censorship
Book Résumé Jacqueline Woodson: Almost-fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun’s comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. (Fiction, Children) Report Censorship
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Book Résumé Jacqueline Woodson: In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South. (Non-Fiction, Young Adult) Report Censorship
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