The “Roots” of Stories in Life Experiences
She reveals how the telling of stories or the creation of songs came to her easily and how she felt a comfort and rightness in the space between the words she put together.Ĭross-Curricular Connections: Social Studies/History, Geography, Biology Woodson shares her struggles with reading and the comparisons made between her and her sister, who was an avid reader. She tells of her time spent in Kingdom Hall and going from door to door as a Jehovah’s Witness spreading the message of salvation. Woodson writes of her brothers and sister, her grandparents, her aunts and uncle, her mother and her father, who has not been a part of the family since she was very young. Life in the North, in New York City, brings Woodson experiences of diversity, including a Puerto Rican best friend, Maria. Her time in Greenville, SC, brings her face-to-face with the civil rights movement and life in the post-Jim Crow south. Vivo says to her, “You’re a writer.” Although she was born in Ohio, Woodson didn’t spend much time there, but rather her life was punctuated by years, and later summers, in South Carolina with her grandparents and life in New York City. Woodson starts from her birth and traces her family and life up through fifth grade, when her teacher Ms. Later, she uses her voice to reach out to others and to speak for the underrepresented. However, it is so much more than this-it is the record of how a young girl discovers her voice through writing and grows to become a beloved author for children and young adults. (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014)īrown Girl Dreaming is Woodson’s memoir in verse of her early life. Feni decided she will have nothing to do with her.Brown Girl Dreaming. What kind of girl would let herself get into so much trouble? How can Feni live under the same roof as someone like that? Her worst fears are confirmed when Rebecca arrives: she is mean, bossy, and uneducated. In The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson, Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. But can they keep their promise to be best friends forever? The girls can’t go back to last summer, before everything changed.
Then Maizon is offered a scholarship to a boarding school, where, she’s afraid, she might be the only black student. But the summer they are eleven, Margaret’s father dies.
They live on the same block on Madison Street in Brooklyn, and they’re always together. Maizon and Margaret know how lucky they are. Jacqueline Woodson Synopses: Last Summer with Maizon is a standalone title by Jacqueline Woodson. If You Like Jacqueline Woodson Books, You’ll Love… Note: No Such Thing as the Real World also has stories by An Na, M.T.
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