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Brown Girl Dreaming is Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir of her early childhood, written in free verse and haiku. It tells of growing up as an African-American girl in the 1960s and of the events that led her to become a writer. The book is generally classed as middle-grade children’s literature.
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
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