tracimreed 's review for:

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

4.0

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This book is an ode to all the emotion, drama and love that encompasses growing up as a girl in American society. Though it particularly focuses on what it’s like growing up as a black teen girl in New York in the 70s, I think that anyone can find the story to be relatable in many ways. Beautifully written in Woodson’s poetic style, Another Brooklyn struck a chord in me and had me remembering all that emotion I felt as a tween and teen too. The love for your friends, the impossibility of teen romance and that ever-encompassing shadow of suddenly being the object of desire.