Before the Ever After
WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his…
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September 6, 2022
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline…
Sweet, Sweet Memory
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Our Gracie Aunt
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Monica Mikai
Remember Us
Jacqueline Woodson
What If We Get It Right?
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Before the Ever After
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El mundo era nuestro
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Leo Espinosa; translated by Yanitzia Canetti
The World Belonged to Us
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Parent Like It Matters
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El año en que aprendimos a volar
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Rafael López
The Year We Learned to Fly
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Red at the Bone
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Harbor Me
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The Day You Begin
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El día en que descubres quién eres
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Team Park
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Great
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Heart of a Champion
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Jay Versus the Saxophone of Doom
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Reality Check in Detroit
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The Boston Breakout
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The Mystery of the Russian Ransom
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Run
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Panic in Pittsburgh
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Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament
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The Ghost of the Stanley Cup
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Mystery at Lake Placid
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The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup
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