If You Come Softly Author:Jacqueline Woodson Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he is 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 th... more »ey 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. They have something private and apart from the rest of the world. But the rest of the world doesn't necessarily see it like that.
Jacqueline Woodson has written a powerful story about the marvels of discovering first love and new feelings, and about how fragile the worlds we build really are.« less