Authors: Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN-13: 9780142501917, ISBN-10: 0142501913
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: Reprint
Jacqueline Woodson has received numerous awards for her middle-grade and young adult books, which include the National Book Award Finalist Hush and the Coretta Scott King Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Miracle's Boys.
Set apart by her parents' interracial marriage, Staggerlee feels even more alienated during her 13th summer due to her confused longing for her friend Hazel.
The daughter of an interracial couple, 14-year-old Staggerlee is already an outsider when she wonders if she is gay, too. PW's starred review called this a "poignant tale of self-discovery" and praised Woodson's "graceful, poetic" prose. Ages 12-up. (Feb.) r