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Summary: "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WOODSON WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WOOChin, Staceyann
Summary: "Crossfire collects world-renowned lesbian poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activism-driven poetry for the first time in a single book."-- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CHISummary: To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.06 FIGSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWMcKinley, Catherine Elizabeth
Summary: "An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs--featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological--bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021