Teacher Guide

Brown Girl Dreaming Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Woodson is the author of more than thirty books, many of which take on different angles on the ideas of race and family. Consider, for example, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, Miracle's Boys, Locomotion, After Tupac & D Foster, and Beneath a Meth Moon.

Consider other YA and middle-grade novels in verse, such as James Howe's Addie on the Inside and Sonya Sones' What My Mother Doesn't Know.

Consider other YA or middle-grade historical novels that address the experiences of the Civil Rights Movement and other early fights for justice, such as Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 and Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

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