NMLP P-013096 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson · Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin) · 2014

The US Penguin / Nancy Paulsen Books 2014 edition (published August 2014) is the true first. It won the 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award, and is a 2015 Newbery Honor book, so the true-first jacket predates those seals.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013096 for "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013096, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).