This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration

The World Belonged to Us

Between Madison and Palmetto

The Day You Begin

Show Way

The Year We Learned to Fly

Coming on Home Soon (Caldecott Honor Book)

Red, White, and Whole

Jacqueline Woodson's 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 career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?

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The World Belonged to Us

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Between Madison and Palmetto

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The Day You Begin

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Show Way

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The Year We Learned to Fly

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Red, White, and Whole

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