Last class, works in verse | Class #6, 2018

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Adolescent novels in verse have steadily increased in popularity since Virginia Euwer Wolff’s groundbreaking Make Lemonade was published in 1993. The best of these marry form and subject in a way that enriches both. Jacqueline Woodson’s eloquent free-verse memoir traces her family history and the earliest development of a writer. Consider how structure and voice reflect the young girl’s discovery of self and the world around her.

from The Horn Book http://ift.tt/2GOJmgv