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Chin, Staceyann McKinley, Catherine Elizabeth Woodson, Jacqueline Woodson, Jacqueline.Woodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "In vivid free verse, award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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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....
Format: text
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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WOODSON WOOWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012
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Summary: A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WOOWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Woodson 2016Woodson, Jacqueline
Summary: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Woodson 2019Woodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOOWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "A group of kids celebrate the joy and freedom of summer on their Brooklyn block"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WooWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. A companion to the Woodson's other book entitled: Locomotion
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WOOSummary: From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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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