Wise Owls Book Club - Winter

Wise Owls
to Add to Calendar 2024-01-16 17:00:00 2024-01-16 18:00:00 Wise Owls Book Club - Winter Wise Owls is a Book Club for adults that enjoy reading children's literature. To join the mailing list for this Book Club please email Linda.Cherry@Ventura.org Visit the Hill Road Library to pick up the latest Wise Owls Book Club selection.   Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.     United States Ventura County Library support@chillco.com America/Los_Angeles public

Wise Owls is a Book Club for adults that enjoy reading children's literature.

To join the mailing list for this Book Club please email Linda.Cherry@Ventura.org

Visit the Hill Road Library to pick up the latest Wise Owls Book Club selection.

 

Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.


 

 
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