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Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.70cm
Weight: 0.261kg
ISBN: 9780399246548
ISBN 10: 0399246541
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 10 January 2008
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A slender, note-perfect novel.--The Washington Post The subtlety and depth with which the author conveys the girls' relationships lend this novel exceptional vividness and staying power.--Publishers Weekly Jacqueline Woodson has written another absorbing story that all readers--especially those who have felt the loss of a friendship--will identify with.--Children's Literature Woodson creates a thought-provoking story about the importance of acceptance and connections in life.--VOYA Woodson [has] created moments of humanity that the girls respond to with whole hearts. They wear innocence like polished armor, and it shines.--New York Times
A slender, note-perfect novel. --The Washington Post The subtlety and depth with which the author conveys the girls' relationships lend this novel exceptional vividness and staying power. --Publishers Weekly Jacqueline Woodson has written another absorbing story that all readers--especially those who have felt the loss of a friendship--will identify with. --Children's Literature Woodson creates a thought-provoking story about the importance of acceptance and connections in life. --VOYA
Author Information
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship,a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
