{"product_id":"if-you-come-softly-isbn-9780525515487","title":"If You Come Softly","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Hate U Give\u003c\/i\u003e, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson--now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own  Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep  school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there.  So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one  frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit  together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so  different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the  world has to get in their way. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and “gorgeous” (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ci\u003e If You Come Softly\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering \"why\" and \"if only . . .\" | \u003cb\u003eOne of TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Woodson infuses their romance with the emotional urgency that defines her work and a prescient sense of social justice.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \"Once again, Woodson handles delicate,  even explosive subject matter with exceptional clarity, surety and  depth. In this contemporary story about an interracial romance, she  seems to slip effortlessly into the skins of both her main characters. . . . Both  voices convincingly describe the couple's love-at-first-sight meeting  and the gradual building of their trust. The intensity of their emotions  will make hearts flutter, then ache as evidence mounts that Ellie's and  Jeremiah's 'perfect' love exists in a deeply flawed society. Even as  Woodson's lyrical prose draws the audience into the tenderness of young  love, her perceptive comments about race and racism will strike a chord  with black readers and open the eyes of white readers.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Woodson offers readers a poetically conceived novel of young love, permeated with complications of family dynamics, racism, and violence. . . . Woodson unerringly limns the delicate intensity and passionate innocence of first love. . . . The two points of view effectively communicate the loneliness of the two sensitive teenagers and their breathless delight in discovering one another. Characterization is solid and well-developed as both parents and frirends focus into reality through the eyes of Miah and Ellie. Their conversations ever so gently open up issues of racism, self-awareness, and moral consciousness.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Woodson perceptively explores varieties of love, trust, and friendship, as she develops well-articulated histories for both families. . . . A tale as rich in social and personal insight as any of Woodson's previous books.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lyrical narrative. . . . This fine author once again shows her gift for penning a novel that will ring true with young adults as it makes subtle comments on social situations.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As in all her fiction, Woodson confronts prejudice head-on.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gracefully told.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKLIATT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Woodson\u003c\/b\u003e (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books \u003ci\u003eRed at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner \u003ci\u003eBefore the Ever After;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Day You Begin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarbor Me\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEach Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, Caldecott Honor book \u003ci\u003eComing On Home Soon\u003c\/i\u003e; Newbery Honor winners \u003ci\u003eFeathers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShow Way\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter Tupac and D Foster\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMiracle's Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. | \u003cp\u003eI couldn’t stop looking at him, at his smile and his hair. I had never seen locks up close. His were thick and black and spiraling down over his shoulders. I wanted to touch them, to touch his face. I wanted to hear him say his name again. For a moment we stared at each other, neither of us saying anything. There was something familiar about him, something I had seen before. I blinked, embarrassed suddenly, and turned away from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Jeremiah rose and I rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well . . . good-bye. I guess . . . I guess I’ll see you around,” he said softly, looking at me a moment longer before turning away and heading down the hall, his locks bouncing gently against his shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jeremiah,” I whispered to myself as I walked away from him. I could feel his name, settling around me, as though I was walking in a mist of it, of him, of Jeremiah.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy Paulsen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300902621413,"sku":"NP9780525515487","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525515487.jpg?v=1767729796","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/if-you-come-softly-isbn-9780525515487","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}