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finding a new type of love in The Color Purple

and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean

and find the courage to be one of a kind

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the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle

Brown Girl Dreaming finding a new type ofJacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both