Author Visit: Jacqueline Woodson
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Thursday, March 18, 7 p.m.
Hear from Jacqueline Woodson, one of our country’s most acclaimed authors, a National Book Award winner, and 2020 MacArthur Foundation fellow. Woodson shares her inspiration for this year's One Book selection, Red at the Bone, an exquisitely wrought tale of the intertwining lives of two Black families in modern-day Brooklyn. This event takes place online, is free and open to all, and will not be recorded. |
Events
iP Theatre for Young Audiences presents "Colors of Thunder"
Social justice with a side of Baby Shark! An original play commissioned for One Book, One Community 2021, this virtual theater production uses tension, surprise, and comedy to lower defenses and inspire thinking about big issues. Recommended for kids ages 6–13, but the production offers something for everyone. Written by Michael Edgar Myers of Kingdom Impact Theater and performed by iP Theatre for Young Audiences ensemble actors Jonathan Wallace, John Arthur Lewis, and Graig Tertulien. Watch the recorded version on YouTube through March 18.
Social justice with a side of Baby Shark! An original play commissioned for One Book, One Community 2021, this virtual theater production uses tension, surprise, and comedy to lower defenses and inspire thinking about big issues. Recommended for kids ages 6–13, but the production offers something for everyone. Written by Michael Edgar Myers of Kingdom Impact Theater and performed by iP Theatre for Young Audiences ensemble actors Jonathan Wallace, John Arthur Lewis, and Graig Tertulien. Watch the recorded version on YouTube through March 18.
Discussions of Brown Girl Dreaming
All book discussions of Jacqueline Woodson's award-winning memoir in verse have now concluded. View/download the reader's guide (PDF).
All book discussions of Jacqueline Woodson's award-winning memoir in verse have now concluded. View/download the reader's guide (PDF).
Brown Girl Dreaming: Related Reading
Titles are listed alphabetically by author last name.
Fiction
Nonfiction
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- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Nonfiction
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- March, Book 1 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
- Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space (young readers’ edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice (young readers’ edition) by Bryan Stevenson
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls