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Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio on February 12, 1963. She received a B.A. in English from Adelphi University in 1985. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a drama therapist for runaways and homeless children in New York City. Her books include The House You Pass on the Way, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena, and The Day You Begin. She won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 for Miracle's Boys. After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way won Newbery Honors. Brown Girl Dreaming won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2015. Her other awards include the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She was also selected as the Young People's Poet Laureate in 2015 by the Poetry Foundation. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Brown Girl Dreaming… (more)
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Feathers 1,747 copies, 104 reviews
Each Kindness 1,530 copies, 274 reviews
The Day You Begin 1,455 copies, 158 reviews
Another Brooklyn: A Novel 1,239 copies, 93 reviews
Red at the Bone 1,219 copies, 57 reviews
If You Come Softly 1,045 copies, 50 reviews
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Coming On Home Soon 960 copies, 173 reviews
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Visiting Day 492 copies, 172 reviews
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