Another Brooklyn Bound for Schoo Edition Contributor(s): Woodson, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0606403604 ISBN-13: 9780606403603 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $26.61 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Family |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 187009 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 3.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood--the promise and peril of growing up--and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives. |