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ALSO BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
Last Summer with Maizon
The Dear One
Maizon at Blue Hill
Between Madison and Palmetto
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
The House You Pass on the Way
If You Come Softly
Lena
Miracle’s Boys
Hush
Locomotion
Behind You
Feathers
After Tupac and D Foster
Peace, Locomotion
Beneath a Meth Moon
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“Dreams,” and “Poem [2]” from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HU GHES by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel,
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This book is for my family— past, present and future.
With love.
CONTENTS
family tree
PART I
i am born
PART II
the stories of south carolina run like rivers
PART III
followed the sky’s mirrored constellation to freedom
PART IV
deep in my heart, i do believe
PART V
ready to change the world
author’s note
thankfuls
family photos
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