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Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
📖 Another Brooklyn
✏️ Jacqueline Woodson
📍Brooklyn (NY), 1970s
👥 August. Sylvia. Angela. Gigi.
📎 Historical Fiction
“But Brooklyn had longer nails and sharper blades. Any strung-out soldier or ashy-kneed, hungry child could have told us this.”
This short book follows four young girls as they grow up together in 1970s Brooklyn. Four individuals fighting their own individual circumstances find a home in each other. But the joy and innocence of their early childhood friendship cannot save them from the seedier side of their neighbourhood. And Woodson’s beautiful prose makes the very real danger of poverty, drug addiction and sexual exploitation even more stark as they navigate their teenage years.
✏️ Jacqueline Woodson
📍Brooklyn (NY), 1970s
👥 August. Sylvia. Angela. Gigi.
📎 Historical Fiction
“But Brooklyn had longer nails and sharper blades. Any strung-out soldier or ashy-kneed, hungry child could have told us this.”
This short book follows four young girls as they grow up together in 1970s Brooklyn. Four individuals fighting their own individual circumstances find a home in each other. But the joy and innocence of their early childhood friendship cannot save them from the seedier side of their neighbourhood. And Woodson’s beautiful prose makes the very real danger of poverty, drug addiction and sexual exploitation even more stark as they navigate their teenage years.