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Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Jacqueline Woodson Books

Remember Us book cover

Remember Us

Jacqueline Woodson
Parent Like It Matters book cover

Parent Like It Matters

Janice Johnson Dias, PhD
Before the Ever After book cover

Before the Ever After

Jacqueline Woodson
Crossfire book cover

Crossfire

Staceyann Chin
Red at the Bone book cover

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson
Harbor Me book cover

Harbor Me

Jacqueline Woodson
If You Come Softly book cover

If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson
Flying Lessons & Other Stories book cover

Flying Lessons & Other Stories

Ellen Oh
Another Brooklyn book cover

Another Brooklyn

Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming book cover

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson
Guys Read: The Distance book cover

Guys Read: The Distance

Jacqueline Woodson
Guys Read: The Sports Pages book cover

Guys Read: The Sports Pages

Jon Scieszka
Beneath a Meth Moon book cover

Beneath a Meth Moon

Jacqueline Woodson
The House You Pass On The Way book cover

The House You Pass On The Way

Jacqueline Woodson
The Dear One book cover

The Dear One

Jacqueline Woodson
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun book cover

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jacqueline Woodson
No Such Thing as the Real World book cover

No Such Thing as the Real World

M. T. Anderson
Peace, Locomotion book cover

Peace, Locomotion

Jacqueline Woodson
Feathers book cover

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson
After Tupac & D Foster book cover

After Tupac & D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson
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