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Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. [1]

65 relations: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel), African-American literature, After Tupac and D Foster, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, American Library Association, Americans, An Na, Another Brooklyn, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Autobiography of a Family Photo, Brooklyn, Brown Girl Dreaming, Columbus, Ohio, Coretta Scott King Award, Daniel Handler, Dell Publishing, Dominican Republic, E. B. Lewis (illustrator), Feathers (novel), Germans, Glbtq.com, Greenville, South Carolina, Hans Christian Andersen Award, How Beautiful the Ordinary, Hudson Talbott, James Baldwin, Jon J Muth, Josette Frank Award, Journalist, Library of Congress, Louise Meriwether, Margaret Edwards Award, Miracle's Boys, Miracle's Boys (novel), National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, Newbery Medal, Nikki Giovanni, NPR, Park Slope, Poetry Foundation, Publishers Weekly, Puerto Rico, Random House, Recorded Books, Rosa Guy, Show Way, Sophie Blackall, Sounder, ..., South Carolina, Spike Lee, Sula (novel), The Bluest Eye, The New School, The New York Times, The Other Side (children's book), Toni Morrison, Transgender, University of South Florida, Virginia Hamilton, Wikiquote, World War II, Young adult fiction, Young Adult Library Services Association. Expand index (15 more) »

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith.

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.

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After Tupac and D Foster

After Tupac And D Foster (2008) is a novel written by Jacqueline Woodson.

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ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults

The American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults, previously known as Best Books for Young Adults (1966-2010), is a recommendation list of books presented yearly by the YALSA division (Young Adult Library Services Association).

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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An Na

An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author.

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Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn is a 2016 novel by Jacqueline Woodson.

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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002).

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Autobiography of a Family Photo

Autobiography of a Family Photo is a 1995 book by Jacqueline Woodson.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent novel told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city in Ohio.

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Coretta Scott King Award

The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American writer and musician.

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Dell Publishing

Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about the movies, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day).

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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E. B. Lewis (illustrator)

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Feathers (novel)

Feathers is a children’s historical novel by Jacqueline Woodson that was first published in 2007.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Glbtq.com

glbtq.com was an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) culture.

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville (locally) is the largest city in and the seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.

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Hans Christian Andersen Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature".

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How Beautiful the Ordinary

How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity is an anthology of LGBTQ short stories for young adults edited by American author Michael Cart.

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Hudson Talbott

Hudson Talbott (born July 11, 1949) is an American author and cartoonist, known for his children's books.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic.

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Jon J Muth

Jon J Muth (born July 28, 1960) is an American comics artist and children's book illustrator who is known for his painted artwork.

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Josette Frank Award

The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Louise Meriwether

Louise Meriwether (born May 8, 1923) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children.

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Margaret Edwards Award

The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association (ALA) literary award that annually recognizes an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".

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Miracle's Boys

Miracle's Boys is an American drama television series, originally airing on The N. It began production in June 2004 and premiered on February 18, 2005.

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Miracle's Boys (novel)

Miracle’s Boys is a young adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson featuring three young brothers of African-American and Puerto Rican descent growing up without parents in Harlem.

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National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

National Ambassador for Young People's Literature is a literary honor presented bi-annually by the Library of Congress to an author or illustrator who is a U.S. citizen and who has made a substantial contribution to young people's literature.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Nikki Giovanni

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Park Slope

Park Slope is a neighborhood in northwest Brooklyn, New York City.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Recorded Books

Recorded Books is an audiobook imprint of RBMedia, a publishing company with operations in countries globally.

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Rosa Guy

Rosa Cuthbert Guy (September 1, 1922Margalit Fox,, New York Times, June 7, 2012. – June 3, 2012) was a Trinidad-born American writer who grew up in the New York metropolitan area.

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Show Way

Show Way is a 2005 children's picture book by American author Jacqueline Woodson with illustrations by Hudson Talbott.

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Sophie Blackall

Sophie Blackall is an Australian artist and illustrator of children's books based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sounder

Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, published in 1969.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Sula (novel)

Sula is a 1973 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970).

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The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1970.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Other Side (children's book)

The Other Side is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis, published in 2001 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is an American metropolitan public research university in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an African-American children's books author.

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Wikiquote

Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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Young Adult Library Services Association

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Woodson

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