Jacqueline Woodson, author portrait
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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award; and Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Remember Us
Before the Ever After
Red at the Bone
Harbor Me
The Day You Begin
If You Come Softly
This Is the Rope
Brown Girl Dreaming
Beneath a Meth Moon
Each Kindness
The Dear One
Lena
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Miracle's Boys
Peace, Locomotion
Behind You
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Miracle's Boys
Locomotion
Hush
Feathers
After Tupac and D Foster
Maizon at Blue Hill
Between Madison and Palmetto
Last Summer with Maizon

Jacqueline Woodson (author of BROWN GIRL DREAMING) | What I'm Reading

Books

Remember Us
Before the Ever After
Red at the Bone
Harbor Me
The Day You Begin
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
If You Come Softly
This Is the Rope
Brown Girl Dreaming
Beneath a Meth Moon
Each Kindness
The Dear One
Lena
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Miracle's Boys
Peace, Locomotion
Behind You
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Miracle's Boys
Locomotion
Hush
Feathers
After Tupac and D Foster
Maizon at Blue Hill
Between Madison and Palmetto
Last Summer with Maizon

Media

Jacqueline Woodson (author of BROWN GIRL DREAMING) | What I'm Reading

Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone Defense Kit

Red at the Bone has become one of the most banned books in the country with teachers, librarians, and community leaders fighting to keep this seminal book on shelves. Riverhead Books has created a special “Defense Kit” to aid those seeking to defend Red at the Bone and freedom of expression itself. The Kit features a letter from Jacqueline, discussion questions from

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New High School Thematic Educator Guide: Contemporary and Classic Pairings

When students read classic and contemporary texts together, they use high-level thinking to determine similarities and differences in style, structure, and essential truths. Paired texts provide relevance and open entry points to new ideas and cultures. This guide pairs the following books: This Is My America and To Kill a Mockingbird Lessons in Chemistry and

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Books for Black History Month

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Find more on the

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