Brown girl dreaming (2016)

Brown Girl Dreaming is a series of short stories/poems by Jacqueline Woodson.  Woodson tells about her life as a child growing up in the North and South.  She shares her family's journey from Ohio to South Carolina.  In the South she tells about the sit ins and other silent protests of African Americans in the 1960s and1970s.  Her family stays in their grandmother's home where her mother grew up.  When her mother travels to New York to find a home there Woodson's grandmother has Jacqueline and her siblings attend church with her. The two sisters and brother travel with their grandmother as Jehovah Witness knocking on doors spreading the good news.  The children move to New York with their mother and new baby brother.  Hope flourishes as a student who loves science.  Dell receives much praise for being so smart.  Jacqueline eventually finds enjoyment as a storyteller and finds writing stories as her way to shine.  The stories tell more than a family's history.  It provides insight from a child's perspective on how America was in the 1960s and 1970s.  This was a good read.  I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys history.

Woodson, J.  (2014).  Brown Girl Dreaming.  New York, New York: Penguin Group.