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Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson9th Grade pick #44 · 368 pages · ISBN 9780147515827As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.About this bookRaised 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.