Remember Us by Woodson, Jacqueline

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.

It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's also the summer of Freddy, a new kid who truly gets Sage. Together, they reckon with the pain of missing the things that get left behind as time moves on, savor what's good in the present, and buoy each other up in the face of destruction. And when the future comes, it is Sage's memories of the past that show her the way forward. Remember Us speaks to the power of both letting go . . . and holding on.

Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780399545467
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 523036 / Remember Us


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2023 pg. 90
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2023
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2023 pg. 85
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 89
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2023
BookPage 10/01/2023
Shelf Awareness 11/03/2023
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2024 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Jacqueline Woodson received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her NY Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. Her dozens of books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, NY Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.