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Another Brooklyn
Contributor(s): Woodson, Jacqueline (Author), Miles, Robin (Read by)

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ISBN: 1504733584     ISBN-13: 9781504733588
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Binding Type: Compact Disc
Published: August 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American - General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: 813.6
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 5.8" L (0.25 lbs)
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged
Review Citations: Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 56
 
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Publisher Description:

Longlisted for the National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award--winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them.

But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.

Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood--the promise and peril of growing up--and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.


Contributor Bio(s): Woodson, Jacqueline: -

Jacqueline Woodson, named national Young People's Poet Laureate, is a multiple-award-winning author of more than two dozen acclaimed books for young adults, middle graders, and children. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the NAACP Image Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, among others. She is the 2018 winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. She was the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Miles, Robin: -

Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic's Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors' unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.


 
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