Jacqueline Woodson
21) Miracle's boys
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
22) Lena
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
23) Behind you
Author
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
24) The dear one
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Feni has to adjust when the pregnant young daughter of an old friend of her mother's comes to stay with them.
25) Pecan pie baby
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Following their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover their ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"/"Siguiendo el consejo de su sabia abuela, un hermano y una hermana descubren su capacidad para levantarse e imaginar un mundo mejor"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion, " keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
32) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
33) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Omnibus edition.
Language
English
Description
If you come softly: After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Behind you: After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that Miah...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
40) This is the Rope
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The story of one family's 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 family's 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...
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