The daughter of an interracial couple, 14-year-old Staggerlee is already an outsider when she wonders if she is gay, too. PW's starred review called this a ""poignant tale of self-discovery"" and ...

Children’s book author Jacqueline Woodson has written over 30 books, often focused on race and identity in America. We get her take on the current moment and talk about the never-ending power of story ...

One Book Baltimore officially launched Nov. 7 for its sixth year with a program at the Enoch Pratt Central Library in Baltimore featuring National Book Award-winner and 2020 MacArthur Fellow ...

As the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the multi-award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming and Beneath a Meth Moon, Jacqueline Woodson knows her way around a good book. Now, ...

I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but I didn’t discover the work of Jacqueline Woodson until I was in my late 20s. What’s worse — or at least it feels that way to my now-woke sensibilities: My interest ...

Jacqueline Woodson’s latest novel “Red at the Bone” begins with an orchestra playing music, the murmur of a room full of relatives, a brownstone staircase on which a teenage girl in a dress once made ...

New York Times best-selling author and MacArthur Fellow Jacqueline Woodson will take part in a free event at Liberty Hall on Thursday as part of the Ross & Marianna Beach Author series. Woodson, ...

The lauded writer of children’s and YA books translates her stories to the stage as the center’s education artist-in-residence Jacqueline Woodson was in fifth grade when she began coming to some ...

At the Library of Congress today, Gene Luen Yang officially ended his tenure as national ambassador for young people's literature and handed the baton to Jacqueline Woodson. She is the sixth ...

National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson’s new novel “Red at the Bone” (Riverhead, 208 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) begins in Brooklyn in 2001 at Melody’s coming-of-age party. The 16-year-old ...

Children’s book author Jacqueline Woodson has written over 30 books, often focused on race and identity in America. We get her take on the current moment and talk about the never-ending power of story ...