Brown Girl Dreaming

Woodson, J. (2014). Brown girl dreaming. New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen Books. For Ages: 10-13 

Personal Response: This book is a touching memoir of the author's experience growing up as a young girl. Each poem is very heartfelt and compelling. Jacqueline Woodson offers some insight into her life and her feelings about what she going through at the time. Other African American women can relate and in some cases empathize with Woodson's experiences. This is also a book that young black girls could also relate to.

Literary Response:  Woodson explains her story of poems by depicting the environment in which she was raised. This was the setting in which her story takes place. She told stories of being in New York with family and being in the South with her family. Due to the times in which she grew up, she experienced significant differences within each setting.