by david@extrablack.ws | Aug 12, 2020 | middle grades, poetry
Purchase Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson at Bookmarks Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each...
by david@extrablack.ws | Aug 5, 2020 | Bookmarks, elementary, poetry
Purchase Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley Newton at Bookmarks From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma’s Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls...