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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 9 years, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), True stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: family issues (Children'
A powerful and gripping story from multi-award-winning Jacqueline Woodson about a boy who loves his dad more than anything, and how a family can find happiness in the darkest moments.
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has always been everyone's hero: a pro football superstar, a beloved member of the neighbourhood and a really, really great dad. But there's something not right about ZJ's dad these days. He's having trouble remembering things, seems to be angry all the time and is starting to forget ZJ's name.
Bit by bit, ZJ has to face this new reality that his family can't keep holding on to his dad's glory days. As his dad begins to have more bad than good days, will they ever find happiness again?
Written in lyrical, emotive poetry, this book is beautiful and accessible - perfect for readers aged 9+.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books, including the 2016 New York Times-bestselling National Book Award finalist for adult fiction, Another Brooklyn, and Red at the Bone, which was longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. Among her many accolades, Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, a four-time National Book Award finalist, a two-time NAACP Image Award winner and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Woodson was the recipient of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award and the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition given to an author of children's books. Her New York Times-bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, received the National Book Award in 2014. She lives with her family in New York.
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