Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson K.J. Ramsey ★ "This picture book should

★ "This picture book should have a permanent place on every empowering book display your library puts up

Now Philip Pullman

environmentalism

highlighting the evolving attributes of vegetables throughout their growing seasons--an arc from spring to early summer to midsummer to the bursting harvest of late summer

and always up for the job of devouring compost and enriching the soil

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson K.J. Ramsey ★ "This picture book shouldJacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama "O" Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil