Chapters (91)
- Cover
- Also by Jacqueline Woodson
- Dedication
- Part 1
- Memory like a Movie
- Everybody’s Looking for a Hero
- Day after the Game
- Before the Ever After
- Daniel
- ZJ
- You Love a Thing?
- Who We Are & What We Love
- Ollie
- Rap Song
- Unbelievable
- On My Daddy’s Shoulders
- The First Time, Again
- Tears
- Real Fiction
- Race Day
- Tackle
- Maplewood, 2000
- January 1, 2000
- Like We Used to Do on Fridays
- Deep Water
- Thanks, Bruh
- Two-Hand Touch
- From Outside
- Migraine
- Repetition
- Tests
- The Trees
- Daydreams
- Middle of the Night
- And Then There’s the Morning
- Prayer
- Driving
- Call Me Little Man
- The Whole Truth
- A Different Kind of Sunday
- Waterboy
- Wishes
- Too Many of Them
- Over Breakfast
- Playing Something Pretty
- E String
- How to Write a Song for My Daddy
- Used to Be
- Bird
- When It Feels like the Whole World Is Screaming
- Part 2
- Visit
- Friends
- Pigskin Dreams
- Some Days
- Back Then
- The Broken Thing
- Haiku for Daddy
- Before Tupac and Biggie
- Our Songs
- Skate Park
- New Normal
- Memory like a Song
- Darry Dancing
- The Trail
- Snow Day
- Dream
- Down the Hall from My Room
- A Future with Me in It
- Audition
- Good Days
- Apple from the Tree
- Birthday
- Invite List
- The Party
- After Midnight
- Football
- Everett
- Waiting
- Jazz
- Maplewood Blues Song
- Pigskin Dreams 2
- The Partridge Family
- It’s All Gonna Be Right in the Morning
- Ways to Disappear
- Company
- Music
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- What’s next onyour reading list?
Jacqueline Woodson was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. In 2018, she received both the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the Children's Literature Legacy Award. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won a National Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Newbery Honor, NAACP Image Award, and Sibert Honor. Her adult book Another Brooklyn was a National Book Award finalist. Her over two dozen books include Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; Miracle's Boys, which won the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award, and the New York Times bestsellers Harbor Me and The Day You Begin. She also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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