This is an autobiography, told in verse. Of all the books I’ve ever read that were
told in verse. I think this one might be favorite. This is not my favorite style of book but I
really felt like the story had a great flow.
I really enjoyed this story and really feel like I got some great
insights to Jacqueline’s life as a child.
We follow her from her birth in Ohio through her mother and father’s
separation and their move to South Carolina and then to New York. In South Carolina, Jacqueline and her brother
and sister lived with her mother’s parents.
Because they were so young and their father was no longer in the
picture, the called their grandfather “Daddy”, as their mother did. Because she lived in both the north and the
south, Jacqueline had a good view of how the Civil Rights movement moved
through the country. However, the book
only talks about any of that insofar as it relates directly to her. I would highly recommend this book to any
child looking for a biography or kids who like novels in verse. This will even work for reluctant readers,
probably, because there is a lot of white space on each page.
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