Review of Brown Girl Dreaming
Martha V. Parravano,
Nov 20, 2014
Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin328 pp. 8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and infancy...