After Tupac & D Foster

A Newbery Honor Book

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur's rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he's coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac's lyrics become more personal for all of them.

The girls are thirteen when D's mom swoops in to reclaim D--and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.

Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Published: 01/10/2008
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.77w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780399246548
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 120399 / After Tupac and D Foster


Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Children's Book Committee Award - Winner
Award: Virginia Readers Choice Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 12/01/2007 pg. 1251
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2007 pg. 56
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2008 pg. 98
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2008 pg. 230 - Recommended
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2008 pg. 537 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Booklist 02/01/2008 pg. 51
School Library Journal 04/01/2008 pg. 154
New York Times Book Review 05/11/2008 pg. 20
Multicultural Review 09/01/2008 pg. 86
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 359 - Superior,Well Above Average
ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2009 pg. 8
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2009 pg. 23

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.