Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change: October 2020: Brown Girl Dreaming

• ​​​"Beginners' Guide to Reading & Enjoying Poetry." The Conversation 

• "Five Poetry Writing Exercises." Stacie Naczelnik

• "Picture Prompts: 160 Images to Inspire Writing." New York Times  

• "Poetry Lights Up the Brain." Gray Matter Blog

Poet, Author, Jacqueline Woodson

• Alicia Keyes: Why She Loves Brown Girl Dreaming (2 min)
• Author's Website, www.jacquelinewoodson.com/  
• Brown Girl Dreaming,Publisher's Bk Trailer (1 min)
• Coretta Scott King Award, Amer Lib Assoc
• E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, Penguin press rel
• MacArthur Genius Award, MacArthur Fdtn (1 min)
• Margaret Edwards' Award, Amer Lib Assoc
• National Book Award, Young People's Literature
• Newbery Medal, Honor Award, Amer Lib Assoc
• Woodson's Latest Novel: Red at the Bone (2020)

• Book Page Interview (transcript)
• Brown Girl Dreaming, Publisher's Video (5 min)
• "Code Switch: On Being a Brown Girl Who Dreams."  NPR (multimedia)
• Meet the Author, AdLit.org  (4 min)
• Reading from Brown Girl Dreaming:  "Miss Bell and the Marchers." (pg. 80-81)
• "What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing."  Ted Talk (11 min)

map of South Carolina

• Freedom Riders, PBS (movie trailer) "Heroes of Desegregating Public Libraries." Granville, NC, County Library System
• "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King (transcript/audio)
• "Poetry and the Civil Rights Movement." Poetry Foundation
• Ruby Bridges, 1954- (1st Black child to desegregate elementary school in Louisiana)
•  Who Were The Freedom Riders?  Georgia Pub Broadcasting video (4.5 min)

• Citizen, Discussion Questions, Graywolf Press

• Grand Rapids Public Library, Teen Book Club

• Kalamazoo Public Library, "Book in a Bag" Reader's Guide

• Vermont Reads, Discussion Questions