Black Girl Dreams is the incredible, powerful memoir of iconic American poet and writer Jacqueline Woodson. In her book, she will talk about what it was like to be an African-American girl growing up in America in the 1960s and 1970s. Each line in this work is a glimmer of hope in the soul of a child searching for his place in the world. Jacqueline Woodson was born in a country where people were divided into black and white, in the year when, in her words, “the South exploded.” She has come a long way from a little girl in Ohio with learning difficulties to a free woman who found the courage to write.–USA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–NEWBERY HONOR WINNER–BARACK OBAMA BOOK CLUB CHOICE