Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th anniversary!  Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle ...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions. Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.  An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the N...

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, 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 gr...

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students sh...

Harbor Me

In this eloquent memoir, the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming traces the relationships in her past that would eventually deliver her to the love of a lifetime. Before Jacqueline Woodson met Juliet, before her own self-realiza...

Before Her

A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by national ambassador for children’s literature Jacqueline Woodson - now celebrating its 20th anniversary, and including a new preface by the author Jeremiah feels good ins...

If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature A number one New York Times best seller! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson has created a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect,...

The Day You Begin

Quilt making has been passed down through eight generations of Soonie's family. Messages were carefully stitched into each quilt, called a Show Way, mapping the family's journey from slavery to present day. 

Show Way

A lineman with something to prove  A vendetta against a baseball legend  The rise of a real-life NHL all-star  The luckiest grapefruit in sports history  Open up The Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're...

Guys Read: The Sports Pages

In this moving book from multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson, a young girl and her grandmother prepare for a very special day - the one day a month they get to visit the girl's father in prison. "Only on visiting day is there chicken frying...

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