

Another Brooklyn
A Novel
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrator: Robin Miles
Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/09/2016
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrator: Robin Miles
Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/09/2016
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. She is also the author of New York Times bestselling novel Another Brooklyn (Harper/Amistad), which was a 2016 National Book Award Finalist and Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years. In 2015, Woodson was named Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
This gorgeous novel is a poem. It is a love letter to black girlhood.......more
Each week, sister Sonja said, Start at the beginning, her dark fingers bending around a small black notebook, pen poised. Many moments passed before I opened my mouth to speak. Each week, I began with the words I was waiting for my mother…A forest grows in Bushwick. At 35, August, a worldly anth......more
I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything. 2 1/2 stars. I liked parts of this, but after all the gushing praise the book has received, I was just kind of... underwhelmed. Another Brooklyn is......more
4.5 stars . I read Jacqueline Woodson's profile and want to tell her what her fifth grade teacher told her about a story she wrote, "This is really good" , but it's not enough. I want to tell her how gorgeous her writing is, how I saw Brooklyn in the 1970's - that place and time through her writing......more
Man, I love a short book. Anyone can write a 300 page (or god forbid, longer) book and make me care about characters. Okay, no they can't. I rarely do. But still, that's all the time in the world. That's no excuse. But making me care about them in UNDER 200??? Now that's a feat. And okay, making me car......more