Brown Girl Dreaming There are few places in

There are few places in the world with as great a diversity of plants as found in today`s Caribbean

Before John Glenn orbited the earth

children of the iron-fisted king

for the fight until victory is won

his famed voice silenced

Brown Girl Dreaming There are few places inJacqueline 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