Tayshas Reading Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home.
Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend.
Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.
When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she immediately falls under its spell, loving the way it erases, even if only briefly, her past.
But as she becomes alienated from her friends and family, she becomes a shell of her former self, and longs to be whole again.
With help from an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee, she's able to begin to rewrite her story and start to move on from her addiction.
Incorporating Laurel's bittersweet memories of life before and during the hurricane, this is a stunning novel by one of our finest writers.
Jacqueline Woodson's haunting - but ultimately hopeful - story is beautifully told and one readers will not want to miss.
About the Author: Jacqueline Woodson (www.
jacquelinewoodson.
com) is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and she received the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award.
She is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir BROWN GIRL DREAMING, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award.
Woodson was recently named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
Her recent adult book, Another Brooklyn, was a National Book Award finalist.
Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.
in English.
She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books.
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