Jacqueline Woodson Celebrates Her Bushwick Upbringing

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 24, 2023

National Book award winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a new children's middle grade book (ages 10 and up), inspired by her childhood spent in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Remember Us tells the story of a soon-to-be seventh grader Sage, a basketball-obsessed girl who is living in the midst of a crisis of houses being burned around her neighborhood. Sage also makes a new friend, Freddy, and the two of them go on a summer journey of discovery. Woodson joins to discuss her book.

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