The House You Pass on the Way - Hardcover

Woodson, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385321899 ISBN 13: 9780385321891

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997

Synopsis

Set apart by such experiences as her grandparents' deaths in an anti-civil rights bombing and her parents' interracial marriage, thirteen-year-old Staggerlee struggles with feelings for her friend Hazel and the arrival of her cousin Trout.

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Review:

"A provocative topic, treated with wisdom and sensitivity, with a strong secondary thread exploring some of the inner and outer effects of biracialism."

About the Author:

Born February 12 in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. A former drama therapist for runaways and homeless children in New York City, she now writes full-time and has received The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction. Though she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers, encouraging young people to write, heated political conversation with her friends, and sewing. At one time, she made most of her own clothing, but now she makes mostly scarves and quilts for her friends.
Jacqueline Woodson began to consider becoming a writer when she was chosen to be the literary editor of a magazine in the fifth grade. Eventually, three books helped

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385321899
• ISBN 13: 9780385321891
• Binding: Hardcover