Brown Girl Dreaming is a beautifully written (and read) story about the author's childhood during the civil rights movement in New York and South Carolina. We read many stories about the 1960s and 1970s, Jim Crow laws, and segregation, but Jacqueline Woodson offers a fresh take by not only writing from her perspective as a child, but also by detailing her accounts in verse.

The audiobook is narrated by the author herself and Woodson's voice reads as whimsical and dreamy as you can imagine, truly bringing you into the mind of the brown girl dreaming.