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Fact Friday features Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. This memoir in verse tells the story of Woodson's life from her birth in Ohio, through her childhood where she lived in South Carolina with her maternal grandparents and later in New York City. It is a story of family, of racism, of segregation. It is the story of her finding her voice as a poet and writer. Published in 2014, Brown Girl Dreaming won the National Book Award for Literature for Young People as well as a Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Newbery Honor. Brown Girl Dreaming was Woodson's fourth Newbery Honor.
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