My Louisiana Sky
by Kimberly Willis Holt
{Goodreads}
Tiger wants nothing more than to get out of her small town, Saitter, Louisiana. She wants to get away from the responsibility of taking care of her mentally disabled mother, from the fact that her father is "dumb" and can barely read, and faraway from her classmates who constantly make fun of her and her family. When she finally gets the opportunely...
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
{Goodreads}
Written in verse, this book tells the story of the author's childhood. Spending her life in warm South Carolina and busy New York, she has never known what a "home" even is. Since the time is based in the 60s/70s it shows what life was like for a African American child in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
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