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'Brown Girl Dreaming' Author on Growing Up in the Segregated South and Brooklyn : Fresh Air This month, Jacqueline Woodson was named the new "Young People's Poet Laureate" by the Poetry Foundation. Her memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming won a National Book Award last year. Also, film critic David Edelstein reviews Inside Out, the new Disney / Pixar animated film directed by Pete Doctor.

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'Brown Girl Dreaming' Author on Growing Up in the Segregated South and Brooklyn

'Brown Girl Dreaming' Author on Growing Up in the Segregated South and Brooklyn

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This month, Jacqueline Woodson was named the new "Young People's Poet Laureate" by the Poetry Foundation. Her memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming won a National Book Award last year. Also, film critic David Edelstein reviews Inside Out, the new Disney / Pixar animated film directed by Pete Doctor.