Coming on Home Soon

Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily routine, missing Mama all the time. They find strength in each other, and a stray kitten even arrives one day to keep them company, but nothing can fill the hole Mama left. Every day they wait, watching for the letter that says Mama will be coming on home soon. Set during World War II, Coming On Home Soon has a timeless quality that will appeal to all who wait and hope.

Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Published: 10/07/2004
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.80w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780399237485
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78570 / Coming on Home Soon


Award: California Young Reader Medal - Nominee
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee
Award: Beehive Awards - Nominee
Award: Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) - Winner
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: North Carolina Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2005 pg. 65
Booklist 08/01/2004 pg. 1925
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2004 pg. 577
Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/2004 pg. 923
School Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 137
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2004 pg. 40
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2005 pg. 70
Christian Home & School 01/01/2005 pg. 27
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/15/2005 pg. 776
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2005 pg. 272 - Book Of Special Distinction
Booklist 02/01/2005 pg. 971
ALA Notable Children's Books 02/15/2005 pg. 1020
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2005 pg. 776
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2005 pg. 59 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

E. B. Lewis has illustrated more than fifty picture books, including Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Talkin' About Bessie (by Nikki Grimes) and Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon (by Jacqueline Woodson). He taught art in public schools for twelve years, and currently teaches at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.