I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2010-11-11. I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prosperous black suburb. She isn't looking for a friend when Lena Bright, a white girl, appears in school. Yet they are drawn to each other because both have lost their mothers. And they know how to keep a secret. For Lena has a secret that is terrifying, and she's desperate to protect herself and her younger sister from their father. Marie must decide whether she can help Lena by keeping her secret... or by telling it.
Lena
Lena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lena write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2006-12-28. Lena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature The companion to the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, now available in paperback. At the end of I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Marie's friend Lena and her little sister Dion run away to escape their abusive father, leaving Marie full of longing and readers full of questions. Now those questions are answered. After cutting off all their hair, Lena and Dion leave one evening as the sun sets. Disguised as boys, they set out in search of their mother's family. But will they ever make it? Whom can two young girls trust? They can't afford to make even one mistake. Now, Lena tells what happened to the two girls out in the world, and of their search for a place to belong and the home they dream of and deserve.
If You Come Softly
If You Come Softly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If You Come Softly write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2006-06-22. If You Come Softly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ."
The House You Pass On The Way
The House You Pass On The Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House You Pass On The Way write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2010-11-11. The House You Pass On The Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.
Last Summer With Maizon
Last Summer With Maizon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Summer With Maizon write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2002-05-27. Last Summer With Maizon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margaret's father dies of a heart attack, and then Maizon is accepted at an expensive boarding school, far away from the city they call home. For the first time in her life, Margaret has to turn to someone who isn't Maizon, who doesn't know her heart and her dreams. . . . "Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story of nearly adolescent children, but a mature exploration of grown-up issues: death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery."(The New York Times)
