Order of Jacqueline Woodson Books
Jacqueline Woodson is an American author of children’s books and young adult novels. Jacqueline grew up saying she’d be either a teacher, a lawyer or a hairdresser, but always knew that writing was what made her happiest. Her books tackle many issues such as interracial couples, teenage pregnancy and homosexuality. She likes to place both physical and psychological boundaries for her characters to conquer. Jacqueline lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Jacqueline Woodson made her debut as a published novelist in 1990 with Last Summer with Maizon. She also published the picture book Martin Luther King, Jr. that same year. Below is a list of Jacqueline Woodson’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of If You Come Softly Books
| If You Come Softly | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Behind You | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Books
| I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lena | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Locomotion Books
| Locomotion | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Peace, Locomotion | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Maizon Books
| Last Summer with Maizon | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Maizon at Blue Hill | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Madison and Palmetto | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Dear One | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Autobiography of a Family Photo | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The House You Pass on the Way | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hush | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miracle's Boys | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Feathers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After Tupac and D Foster | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beneath a Meth Moon | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Another Brooklyn | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Harbor Me | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Red at the Bone | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Before the Ever After | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Remember Us | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sweet, Sweet Memory | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Visiting Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Side | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Our Gracie Aunt | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Coming On Home Soon | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miss Grace's House | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Show Way | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pecan Pie Baby | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Each Kindness | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Is the Rope | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day You Begin | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year We Learned to Fly | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World Belonged to Us | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ghostwriter Non-Fiction Books
| WRITE NOW! | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The One Books
| Before Her | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Parable | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lila | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Wedding Thing | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yes, And | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Visitor | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Speed Grieving | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ghostwriter Books
| The Book Chase | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Women on Women | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Way Out of No Way | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Places I Never Meant To Be | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About The Future | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Hot Second: Stories About Desire | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sixteen | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Such Thing as the Real World | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Letter Q | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guys Read: The Sports Pages | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How I Resist | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fight of the Century | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Is Life | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: No Such Thing as the Real World also has stories by An Na, M.T. Anderson, K.L. Going, Beth Kephart and Chris Lynch.
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Jacqueline Woodson Synopses: Last Summer with Maizon is a standalone title by Jacqueline Woodson. Maizon and Margaret know how lucky they are. They live on the same block on Madison Street in Brooklyn, and they’re always together. But the summer they are eleven, Margaret’s father dies. Then Maizon is offered a scholarship to a boarding school, where, she’s afraid, she might be the only black student. The girls can’t go back to last summer, before everything changed. But can they keep their promise to be best friends forever?
In The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson, Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. What kind of girl would let herself get into so much trouble? How can Feni live under the same roof as someone like that? Her worst fears are confirmed when Rebecca arrives: she is mean, bossy, and uneducated. Feni decided she will have nothing to do with her. But it’s hard not to be curious about a girl so close to her own age who seems so different…