JACQUELINE WOODSON

A Newbery Honor winner takes readers on a journey into a young girl''s heart and reveals the pain and joy of learning to look beneath the surface in this new novel. aHope is the thing with feathersa starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnat thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more aholy.a There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says heas not white. Who is he? During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new lightaher brother Seanas deafness, her motheras fear, the class bullyas anger, her best friendas faith and her own desire for athe thing with feathers.a Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girlas heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has always been everyones hero: a pro football superstar, a beloved member of the neighbourhood and a really, really great dad. But theres something not right about ZJs dad these days. Hes having trouble remembering things, seems to be angry all the time and is starting to forget ZJs name. Bit by bit, ZJ has to face this new reality that his family cant keep holding on to his dads glory days. As his dad begins to have more bad than good days, will they ever find happiness again? Written in lyrical, emotive poetry, this book is beautiful and accessible - perfect for readers aged 9+.

WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AND THE JANE ADDAMS PEACE AWARD! Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya.Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.

Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for A Room to Talk), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.

« La première fois que j’ai vu Sylvia, Angela et Gigi, ce fut au cours de cet été-là. Elles marchaient dans notre rue, en short et débardeur, bras dessus bras dessous, têtes rejetées en arrière, seco

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.

A sweet addition to the family is coming! Written by National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. Illustrated by Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Sophie Blackall. All anyone wants to talk about with Mama is the new ding-dang baby thats on the way, and Gia is getting sick of it! If her new sibling is already such a big deal, whats going to happen to Gias nice, cozy life with Mama once the baby is born? [An] honest story about jealousy, anger, displacement, and love [that] will touch kids dealing with sibling rivalry and spark their talk about change.Booklist Fresh and wise.Kirkus Reviews

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDWINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARDNational Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodsons stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyones hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, hes as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJs house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJs mom explains its because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesnt make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father cant remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?

National Book Award WinnerCoretta Scott King Award WinnerNewbery Honor BookRobert F. Sibert Informational Honor BookUno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revistaTIME.¿Que significa crecer en dos lugares y no pertenecer completamente a ninguno? Jacqueline Woodson crecio entre Carolina del Sur y Nueva York y siempre se sintio a medias en ambos. Estos poemas, conmovedores y poderosos, lo reflejan; asi como reflejan la experiencia de ser una niña afroamericana en las decadas de 1960 y 1970, de una infancia vivida entre los residuos de las leyes de Jim Crow, de su aprendizaje constante sobre el movimiento de derechos civiles. Cada verso es una mirada al alma de alguien que, desde muy pequeña, busca su lugar en el mundo.Tal vez lo encontro en su propia voz al escribir. La elocuente poesia de Woodson es tambien una celebracion de la escritura pues, a pesar de que tuvo dificultades con la lectura cuando era niña, su amor por las historias inspiro las primeras chispas de la talentosa escritora que es hoy. Este libro es resultado de eso. Es el universo de una niña morena que, contra todo y contra todos, se atrevio a soñar.

An unforgettable New York Times bestseller from multi-award-winning Jacqueline Woodson,celebrating the friendships formed when a group of children create a safe harbour for each other.Six children from different backgrounds meet for a weekly chat with no adults to listen in. This special time and place soon becomes a harbour - a safe place where they can express the feelings and fears that they have to hide from the rest of the world. From parents and privilege to racism and deportation, the kids give each other the strength to discuss these tough topics, grow braver and face the rest of their lives.Award-winning Jacqueline Woodson weaves a beautifully written and powerful tale that leaves a long-lasting mark in readers minds.

There will be times when you walk into a roomand no one there is quite like you . . .It might be how you look or the way you talk, where youre from; maybe its what you eat or what your hair is like. Feeling like an outsider can be scary at first, but the day you begin to share your stories might just be the day others find the courage to share theirs too.A lyrical story about celebrating differences, from award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson.

The story of one familys journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her familys history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump rope games to tying suitcases onto a car for the big move north to New York City, and even for a family reunion where that first little girl is now a grandmother.Newbery Honorwinning author Jacqueline Woodson and Coretta Scott King Awardwinning illustrator James Ransome use the rope to frame a thoughtful and moving story as readers follow the little girls journey. During the time of the Great Migration, millions of African American families relocated from the South, seeking better opportunities. With grace and poignancy, Woodsons lilting storytelling and Ransomes masterful oil paintings of country and city life tell a rich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future.

A moving story of love and loss from a three-time Newbery winning authorYou are so light you move with the wind and the snow. . . . And it lifts you up-over a world of sadness and anger and fear. Over a world of first kisses and hands touching and someone youre falling in love with. Shes there now. Right there. . . .Miah and Ellie were in love. Even though Miah was black and Ellie was white, they made sense together. Then Miah was killed. This was the ending.And it was the beginning of grief for the many people who loved Miah. Now his mother has stopped trying, his friends are lost and Ellie doesnt know how to move on. And there is Miah, watching all of this&150unable to let go.How do we go on after losing someone we love? This is the question the living and the dead are asking.With the help of each other, the living will come together. Miah will sit beside them. They will feel Miah in the wind, see him in the light, hear him in their music. And Miah will watch over them, until he is sure each of those he loved is all right.This beautiful sequel to Jacqueline Woodsons If You Come Softly explores the experiences of those left behind after tragedy. It is a novel in which through hope, understanding and love, healing begins.

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorThirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. Shes always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents interracial marriage, and by her familys retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.

A Newbery Honor BookThe day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friends lives, the world opens up for them. Suddenly theyre keenly aware of things beyond their block in Queens, things that are happening in the worldlike the shooting of Tupac Shakurand in search of their Big Purpose in life. Whenall too soonDs mom swoops in to reclaim her, and Tupac dies, they are left with a sense of how quickly things can change and how even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.Includes a Discussion Guide by Jacqueline Woodson"A slender, note-perfect novel."The Washington Post"The subtlety and depth with which the author conveys the girls relationships lend this novel exceptional vividness and staying power."Publishers Weekly "Jacqueline Woodson has written another absorbing story that all readersespecially those who have felt the loss of a friendshipwill identify with."Childrens Literature "Woodson creates a thought-provoking story about the importance of acceptance and connections in life."VOYA

Margaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margarets father dies of a heart attack, and then Maizon is accepted at an expensive boarding school, far away from the city they call home. For the first time in her life, Margaret has to turn to someone who isnt Maizon, who doesnt know her heart and her dreams. . . . "Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story of nearly adolescent children, but a mature exploration of grown-up issues: death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery."(The New York Times)

A powerfully moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving grandmother living nearby. Once her name was Toswiah. Now, everything is different. Her family has been forced to move to a new place and change their identities. But thats not all that has changed. Her once lively father has become depressed and quiet. Her mother leaves teaching behind and clings to a new-found religion. Her only sister is making secret plans to leave. And Evie, struggling to find her way in a new city where kids arent friendly and the terrain is as unfamiliar as her name, wonders who she is. Jacqueline Woodson weaves a fascinating portrait of a thoughtful young girls coming of age in a world turned upside downA National Book Award Finalist

The stunning companion to the National Book Award finalist--from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorTwelve-year-old Lonnie is finally feeling at home with his foster family. But because hes living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides its his job to be the remembererand write down everything that happens while theyre growing up. Lonnies musings are bittersweet; hes happy that he and Lili have new families, but though his new family brings him joy, it also brings new worries. With a foster brother in the army, concepts like Peace have new meaning for Lonnie.Told through letters from Lonnie to Lili, this thought-provoking companion to Jacqueline Woodsons National Book Award finalist Locomotion tackles important issues in captivating, lyrical language. Lonnies reflections on family, loss, love and peace will strike a note with readers of all ages.

« Chaque page, sublime, est une nouvelle révélation, un nouvel événement bouleversant, ou dévoile un nouveau souvenir. » Edwidge Danticat Nous sommes en 2001, le soir d’une fête donnée en l’hon

A mesmerising story about a young girl growing up in America, finding a home and discovering her voice- a multi-award winning New York Times bestseller and President Obamas O Book Club pick.Brown Girl Dreaming is the unforgettable story of Jacqueline Woodsons childhood, sharing what it was like to grow up as an African-American in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, and discovering the first sparks of an incredible, lifelong gift for writing. Its packed with wonderful reflections on family and on place, in a way that will appeal to readers from 11 to adult.Emotionally charged and touching, each line tells the tale of one girls search to find her voice, her identity and her place in the world.This book has been a bestseller in the US for almost a decade, winning every accolade and prize including the prestigious Newbery Honor Award, and is now made available to readers in the UK for the first time.