Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who has written award-winning books for children, young adults, and adults exploring race, identity, and belonging with lyrical precision. Brown Girl Dreaming won the National Book Award and the Newbery Honor.
Works
- Another BrooklynComing-of-age novel following four girls discovering friendship and identity in Brooklyn
- Red at the BoneNovel spanning decades tracing family secrets, queerness, and identity across generations
- If You Come SoftlyYoung adult novel about interracial teenage romance and identity at exclusive prep school
- Behind YouComing-of-age novel exploring grief when girl dies and narrator confronts her absence
- Miracle's BoysThree brothers navigate grief and family bonds after their mother's death
- Brown Girl DreamingMemoir in verse about growing up African American in the American South and North
- LocomotionYoung orphan expresses trauma and hope through poetry in letters to a lost friend
- FeathersFour children grapple with faith, racism, and friendship in 1970s suburban America
- After Tupac and D FosterThree girls obsess over Tupac while navigating race and adolescence in 1990s New York
- Each KindnessPicture book exploring kindness, consequences, and forgiveness among schoolchildren
- The Other SidePicture book about divided communities and the power of friendship across barriers
- Harbor MeSix middle schoolers discuss identity, secrets, and belonging in a safe space