Virginia Readers Choice Award Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People\'s Literature When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire.
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 A. in English.
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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.
Her recent adult book, Another Brooklyn, was a National Book Award finalist.
Woodson was recently named the Young People\'s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
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. com) is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People\'s Literature, and she received the 2018 Children\'s Literature Legacy Award. jacquelinewoodson.
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Jacqueline Woodson\'s poignant story of love, loss, and hope is lyrically written and enormously accessible.
Told entirely through Lonnie\'s poetry, we see his heartbreak over his lost family, his thoughtful perspective on the world around him, and most of all his love for Lili and his determination to one day put at least half of their family back together.
Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper.
And his teacher, Ms.
She\'s already raised two sons and she seems to know what makes them tick.
His foster mother, Miss Edna, is growing on him.
And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not a lot of people want boys-not foster boys that ain\'t babies." But Lonnie hasn\'t given up.
Now he\'s eleven, and he still misses them terribly.
Virginia Readers Choice Award Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People\'s Literature When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire
