Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Told in free verse, mostly, this is an autobiographical tale of a young black girl from birth to approximately age ten. The reader learns a bit about the protesters who would sit at the food counters that they weren't welcomed at, but mostly learns about a little girl who grew up in these turbulent times. We read of how her mother and father split when the author is small, how she and her siblings go to live in South Carolina with her grandparents for a time. We learn of their move to Brooklyn, and the birth of their half brother who gets sick from eating paint chips.
This was a sweet story, which is not what I expected, given the time it was written about. I expected to read a lot of racist comments, but I was wrong.
It's funny to think that the author is only thirteen years older than I am, but it seems like so much more than that. Weird.
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