The Year We Learned to Fly

In this “powerful, stripped down novel” (School Library Journal) a young girl battles against losing herself to her addiction.<BR><BR>“[Makes] it abundantly clear how easy it is to succumb to meth and how difficult it is to recover from it.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review<BR><BR>“Brutally honest. . . . An intimate and compelling story of survival.”—The Horn Book<BR><BR>Laurel would do anything to turn back time . . . <BR><BR>To tell her mother and grandmother not to stay home near the beach with a hurricane coming . . . <BR><BR>To say no when her boyfriend, T-Boom, the co-captain of the basketball team, offers her that first hit of moon—the drug that makes her feel bigger than all she’s lost . . . <BR><BR>To have been there for her little brother and her best friend, Kaylee, when they needed her, instead of chasing the moon.<BR><BR>But she can’t. <BR><BR>All she can do is move forward now. And only she can decide whether to face the pain and joy that is a part of living, or follow the moon to numbness and probably death. Only she can decide to choose to be there for her family and friends—or give them another thing to grieve.

Als Ellie und Miah sich an ihrem ersten Tag an einer New Yorker Privatschule begegnen, berühren sich ihre HerzenEllie träumt von Miah, seit er ihr das erste Mal in die Augen gesehen hat. Miah denkt ständig an das Mädchen, dessen Namen er nicht kennt. Denn ihnen widerfährt gerade die erste ganz zarte und doch große Liebe. Beiden ist regelrecht schwindelig von dem, was sie da miteinander erleben, denn es ist mit nichts zu vergleichen, was ihnen je widerfahren ist. Sie sind so in ihrer gemeinsamen Welt versunken, dass sie nur am Rande wahrnehmen, was andere scheinbar wichtig finden: Die Tatsache, dass Ellie weiß ist und Miah Schwarz. Doch ihre Herzen sprechen eine Sprache und das ist alles, was für sie beide zählt.<BR>Eine zutiefst berührende, poetische Liebesgeschichte vor dem Hintergrund des alltäglichen Rassismus. Für Fans von Jason Reynolds und Angie Thomas

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>"A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off." -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in The Atlantic<BR><BR>"An exquisite tale of family legacy….The power and poetry of Woodson's writing conjures up Toni Morrison." - People<BR> <BR> "In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss….With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen - even further into the ranks of great literature." - NPR<BR> <BR>"This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters." -Tayari Jones, bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, in O Magazine<BR><BR>An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. <BR> <BR> Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.<BR><BR> As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place.<BR><BR> Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López's highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence.<BR><BR>On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother’s advice: “Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just as bored you are now.” And before they know it, their imaginations lift them up and out of their boredom. Then, on a day full of quarrels, it’s time for a trip outside their minds again, and they are able to leave their anger behind. This precious skill, their grandmother tells them, harkens back to the days long before they were born, when their ancestors showed the world the strength and resilience of their beautiful and brilliant minds. Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael Lopez’s dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.

Eine zutiefst bewegende Geschichte über Liebe und Verlust der National Book Award-PreisträgerinMiah und Ellie waren ein Liebespaar. Zusammen ergaben sie ein Ganzes. Doch Miah war Schwarz und wurde getötet. Das war das Ende. Und der Beginn der Trauer für all jene, die Miah liebten.<BR>Wie können wir weiterleben, nach dem Verlust eines geliebten Menschen? Dieser Frage müssen sich nun alle stellen in den Wochen und Monaten, seit er gegangen ist.<BR>Ellie spürt Miah im Hauch des Windes, sieht ihn im Licht der Sonne, hört ihn in den Klängen der Musik. Und weiß, dass Miah über sie und seine Lieben wachen wird, bis gewiss ist, dass es ihnen allen gut gehen wird.<BR>Die wunderschöne Fortsetzung der berührenden Liebesgeschichte 'Eine Weile bleibt die Zeit für uns stehen', in der dank Hoffnung, Verständnis und Liebe die Heilung beginnt.

Two children’s book superstars—#1 New York Times bestseller Jacqueline Woodson, the author of The Day You Begin, and Leo Espinosa, the illustrator of Islandborn­—join forces to celebrate the joy and freedom of summer in the city, which is gloriously captured in their rhythmic text and lively art.<BR><BR>One of The Atlantic’s 65 Essential Children’s Books<BR><BR>It's getting hot outside, hot enough to turn on the hydrants and run through the water--and that means it's finally summer in the city! Released from school and reveling in their freedom, the kids on one Brooklyn block take advantage of everything summertime has to offer: Freedom from morning till night to go out to meet their friends and make the streets their playground--jumping double Dutch, playing tag and hide-and-seek, building forts, chasing ice cream trucks, and best of all, believing anything is possible. That is, till their moms call them home for dinner. But not to worry--they know there is always tomorrow to do it all over again--because the block belongs to them and they rule their world.<BR><BR>(This book is also available in Spanish, as El mundo era nuestro!)

A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson<BR><BR>Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. <BR> <BR>Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). Now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author, If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ."

Zur Beerdigung ihres Vaters kehrt die junge Anthropologin August zurück nach New York, Stadt ihrer Kindheit. Hier, auf den Straßen Brooklyns, ist sie aufgewachsen. Hier hat sie Angela, Gigi und Sylvia getroffen, ihre drei Freundinnen, mit denen sie unzertrennlich über das glühende Pflaster Brooklyns der 70er-Jahre zog. Weiße verließen das Viertel, Drogendealer und traumatisierte Vietnamveteranen waren ihre Nachbarn, doch mit ihren Freundinnen fühlte sich August unverwundbar. Nichts schien unmöglich, wenn sie nur zusammenhielten. Doch haben sie dieser Welt etwas entgegenzusetzen? - 'Ein anderes Brooklyn', Finalist für den National Book Award, stand auf der New-York-Times-Bestsellerliste und wurde hymnisch besprochen. Eindringlich und poetisch erzählt es von Freundschaft, Erinnerung und Aufwachsen in einem Brooklyn, das es so nicht mehr gibt.

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<BR><BR>Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!<BR><BR>National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.<BR><BR> There will be times when you walk into a room<BR> and no one there is quite like you.<BR><BR>There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. <BR><BR>Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.<BR><BR>(This book is also available in Spanish, as El Día En Que Descubres Quién Eres!)

"Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems. Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature A President Obama """"O"""" Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. <BR>>

Entre los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos de acuerdo con TIMES 2020<BR>Ganador del Premio Nacional del Libro<BR>Ganador del Premio Coretta Scott King<BR>Newbery Honor Book<BR>Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book<BR>  <BR> ¿Qué significa crecer en dos lugares y no pertenecer completamente a ninguno? Jacqueline Woodson creció entre Carolina del Sur y Nueva York y siempre se sintió a medias en ambos. Estos poemas, conmovedores y poderosos, lo reflejan; así como reflejan la experiencia de ser una niña afroamericana en las décadas de 1960 y 1970, de una infancia vivida entre los residuos de las leyes de Jim Crow, de su aprendizaje constante sobre el movimiento de derechos civiles. Cada verso es una mirada al alma de alguien que, desde muy pequeña, busca su lugar en el mundo. <BR><BR> Tal vez lo encontró en su propia voz al escribir. La elocuente poesía de Woodson es también una celebración de la escritura pues, a pesar de que tuvo dificultades con la lectura cuando era niña, su amor por las historias inspiró las primeras chispas de la talentosa escritora que es hoy. Este libro es resultado de eso. Es el universo de una niña morena que, contra todo y contra todos, se atrevió a soñar.<BR>  <BR>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<BR><BR>TIMES 2020 100 Best YA of All Times<BR><BR>Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in Spanish<BR><BR>Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author<BR><BR>Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature<BR><BR>Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.<BR><BR> With the addition of a brand-new author's note, this special edition celebrates the tenth anniversary of this classic book. As always, Woodson moves readers with her lyrical narrative, and E. B. Lewis's amazing talent shines in his gorgeous watercolor illustrations.