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While this book doesn‘t transcend its middle grade designation the way Brown Girl Dreaming does, it does discuss important issues of cultural and socioeconomic divisions in a way that is accessible for a young reader. Woodson manages this accessibility without coming across didactic or condescending to her young audience. I don‘t remember anyone writing this way for young people when I was one, but I‘m glad we have her now. #PenguinFirsttoRead