Brown Girl Dreaming Children's Humor * Winner of the National

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *

and David Roberts is well-known for his work on the New York Times bestselling Questioneers series

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Brown Girl Dreaming Children's Humor * Winner of the NationalJacqueline 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