Brown Girl Dreaming Zachary Sterling Santiago learns that even when

Santiago learns that even when you don't speak the same language

helps parents teach kids about hobbies

So if some townspeople want to be sticks in the mud

but a real friend

” —The New York Times

Brown Girl Dreaming Zachary Sterling Santiago learns that even whenJacqueline 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