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Jacqueline Woodson

(b.1963)

Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes books targeted at children and adolescents.

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction

Novels

   Last Summer with Maizon (1990)
   The Dear One (1991)
   Maizon At Blue Hill (1992)
   Between Madison & Palmetto (1993)
   I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1994)
   Autobiography Of A Family Photo (1995)
   From The Notebooks Of Melanin Sun (1995)
   The House You Pass On The Way (1997)
   If You Come Softly ... (1998)
   Lena (1999)
   Miracle's Boys (2000)
   Hush (2002)
   Locomotion (2003)
   Behind You (2004)
   Feathers (2007)
   After Tupac and D Foster (2008)
   Peace, Locomotion (2009)
   If You Come Softly and Behind You (2010)
   Beneath a Meth Moon (2012)
   Another Brooklyn (2016)
   Harbor Me (2018)
   Red at the Bone (2019)

Collections

No Such Thing as the Real World (2009) (with An Na, M T Anderson, K L Going, Beth Kephart and Chris Lynch)

Picture Books

   Martin Luther King, Jr. (1990)
   We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past (1998)
   Sweet, Sweet Memory (2000)
   The Other Side (2001)
   Our Gracie Aunt (2001)
   Visiting Day (2001)
   Coming On Home Soon (2004)
   Miss Grace's House (2005)
   Show Way (2005)
   Pecan Pie Baby (2010)
   Each Kindness (2012)
   This Is the Rope (2013)
   The Day You Begin (2018)

Series contributed to

Ghostwriter
Write Now! (1994)
The Book Chase (1994)

The One
Before Her (2019)

Anthologies edited

A Way Out of No Way (1996)

Non fiction

Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)

Awards

	Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (2006) : Show Way
	Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (2008) : Feathers
	Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (2009) : After Tupac and D Foster
	Newbery Medal Best Novel nominee (2015) : Brown Girl Dreaming
	National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2016) : Another Brooklyn

Jacqueline Woodson recommends

Boys without Names (2009)
Kashmira Sheth
"One of the best books I've read this year."

Signs of Life (2016)
(Rough Romance, book 2)
Selene Castrovilla
"Selene Castrovilla is a writer worth watching."

Piecing Me Together (2017)
Renée Watson
"Watsonâ€™s elegantly crafted novel speaks to the myriad of people searching for themselves in the world."

Ronit & Jamil (2017)
Pamela L Laskin
"A story that is at once supremely specific and stunningly universal."

The Art of Starving (2017)
Sam J Miller
"Beautifully rendered. This novel will break your heart and heal it again."

An American Marriage (2018)
Tayari Jones
"I love An American Marriage, and I'm so excited for this book to be in the world. Tayari's novel is timely, thoughtful, and beautifully written. Reading it, I found myself angry as hell, laughing out loud, choking up and cheering. A gem of a book."

The Blossom and the Firefly (2020)
Sherri L Smith
"Sherri Smith is a truely talented writer."

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