Behind You (Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award) - Hardcover

Woodson, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039923988X ISBN 13: 9780399239885

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2004

Synopsis

After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.

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Review:

In a deftly constructed series of first-person reactions and reflections, Woodson reaches back to the events of If You Come Softly and explores the grieving and process of moving on for both the mistakenly killed Jeremiah as well as for his family, friends, and white, Jewish girlfriend. "VOYA"

Books with painful subject matter rarely leave the reader longing for more. This one does. "Children s Literature"

?In a deftly constructed series of first-person reactions and reflections, Woodson reaches back to the events of If You Come Softly and explores the grieving and process of moving on for both the mistakenly killed Jeremiah as well as for his family, friends, and white, Jewish girlfriend.? ?"VOYA"

?Books with painful subject matter rarely leave the reader longing for more. This one does.? ?"Children's Literature"

"In a deftly constructed series of first-person reactions and reflections, Woodson reaches back to the events of If You Come Softly and explores the grieving and process of moving on for both the mistakenly killed Jeremiah as well as for his family, friends, and white, Jewish girlfriend." - "VOYA"

"Books with painful subject matter rarely leave the reader longing for more. This one does." - "Children's Literature"

About the Author:

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and she received the 2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. She is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir BROWN GIRL DREAMING, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book, Another Brooklyn, was a National Book Award finalist. Born on February 12th 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. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include THE OTHER SIDE, EACH KINDNESS, Caldecott Honor Book COMING ON HOME SOON; Newbery Honor winners FEATHERS, SHOW WAY, and AFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER, and MIRACLE'S BOYS--which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award and was adapted into a miniseries directed by Spike Lee. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature, the winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and was the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 039923988X
• ISBN 13: 9780399239885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 118