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• List: Notable Children's Books
• List: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
• Format: Book
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Genre: Poetry

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  Brown Girl Dreaming

  By Jacqueline Woodson

  Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical memoir chronicles the incidents and emotions she experienced as an African-American girl growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Precise language magnifies moments and connects them to the larger historical narrative. Her elegant and evocative stand-alone poems weave a story about her development from a struggling reader and dreamer into a confident young woman and writer.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • John Newbery Medal 2015 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2015, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2015 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780399252518
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  Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

  The inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer's own words. The biography takes her from a sharecropping child to a community leader.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2016 (Honor Title), Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763665319