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Jacqueline Wilson's Brown Girl Dreaming
In the book, Brown Girl Dreaming is about a young girl named Jacqueline or Jack who grows up in a time of division between white people and black people. She watches as the place that she lives in is affected and is changing in many ways, and her, being someone of color, has a lot to experience. Jacqueline tells stories of her family up until her mom left her dad after a long time of fighting when she was one. Now that her parents are separated, Jacqueline’s mom decided to move the family to the south where she has been wanting to go to for a very long time now. Her mom grew up in the south, and a lot of her family lives there; that is why she wanted to move back. Since the Woodsons moved to the south, a lot of their family that lived there
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