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Cover of Autobiography of a Family Photo

Book: Autobiography of a Family Photo

By Jacqueline Woodson

In her first adult novel, Woodson–already acclaimed in both the African-American and lesbian and gay worlds for her award-winning short fiction–paints a moving portrait of childhood, family, and community that takes into account both the destruction wrought by war and…

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Book: Cantoras

By Carolina De Robertis | Narrated by Carolina De Robertis

…this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again – either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story.” (Jacqueline Woodson, National…

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Book: Big Girl

By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts

…gifted hands, show us the love and struggle of what it means to be inside bodies that don’t always fit with the outside world” (Jacqueline Woodson). In tracing the perils and pleasures of the inheritance that comes with being born,…

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Book: Am I Blue?

By Marion Dane Bauer (Editor) and Beck Underwood (Illustrator)

Original stories by C. S. Adler, Marion Dane Bauer, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M. E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Lesléa Newman, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane…

Cover of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Book: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

By Jacqueline Woodson

Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it’s hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot–they’re about as close as they can be, because they…