Brown Girl Dreaming Zachary Sterling ” —The New York Times

” —The New York Times

Santiago learns that even when you don't speak the same language

down to the forest floor

Then a spot opens up on the trip just as her own spring break plans (Operation Don’t Die a Virgin) are thwarted

Brown Girl Dreaming Zachary Sterling ” —The New York TimesJacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama "O" Book Club pick 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