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Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)
Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)
Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)
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Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)

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Jasmine does not like middle school at all. With her father away in the army, Jasmine struggles to endure every boring day of eighth grade. Desperate to escape her unhappy reality, Jasmine etches her feelings into her desk in an effort to prove that she really is a mean kid. As the days drag on, it seems nothing is going to pull Jasmine out of her misery.

Although her teacher, Mrs. Truth, is excited to teach the students about African history and culture, Jasmine is less than enthused. But after Mrs. Truth introduces Jasmine to a ten-year-old African American historian, Garvey leads Jasmine on an educational journey of self-discovery where she soon realizes that learning can be fun.

Jasmines Journey is the tale of a middle schoolers challenges as she battles personal obstacles and learns an important lesson that she is as great as those who came before her.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateApr 17, 2015
ISBN9781491762684
Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)
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Livingston Holloway

Livingston Holloway earned a Master of Education and began his career as an elementary teacher. He has worked as a School Improvement Director, Funded Programs Director, and Assistant Superintendent in several public school districts. Now retired, Livingston resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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    Jasmine’S Journey - Livingston Holloway

    Copyright © 2015 Livingston Holloway.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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    ISBN: 978-1-4917-6266-0 (sc)

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    Library of Congress Control Number: 2015903883

    iUniverse rev. date: 3/9/2015

    CONTENTS

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1 At DC Woodson Middle School

    Chapter 2 The Next Day

    Chapter 3 Lunch and Learn

    Chapter 4 Inside Mrs. Truth’s Transformed Classroom

    Chapter 5 Day Three: The National Museum of African Art

    Chapter 6 At Grandma’s House

    Chapter 7 Day Four: At Jasmine’s Home

    Chapter 8 In DC Woodson’s Library Media Center

    Chapter 9 Jasmine’s Journey

    Chapter 10 Graduation Day

    Chapter 11 Jasmine’s Journey (Summertime)

    Jasmine’s Favorite Historical Figures

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    About the Illustrator

    Dedication

    To Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford

    Former principal of the Crispus Attucks School (PS 21) in Brooklyn, New York

    Former vice chancellor of the NewYork State Board of Regents

    Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels beneath her,

    Still she sings away—all the same—knowing that she has wings.

    —Victor Hugo

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Thanks to Mars Alma and the iUniverse staff for its professional attention to the compiling of this book. Also a special thanks to Pamela Holloway, Cecelia Johnson, Takada Walls, Nzingha Abena (Queen Mother), Erica Blake, Tony Williams aka Professor Tony, Dorothy Williams, Link Lacille and the entire Lacille family, Germaul Barnes, Germaine Behagen, Phyllis Smith, Kimberly Johnson, Betty Vandegrift-Greene, Indigo Gill, Songhay Parham, Hortensia Gooding, Zahir, Lydia, and Dr. Felicia El-Amin.

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    DC Woodson Middle School

    CHAPTER 1

    At DC Woodson Middle School

    I hate it here. It’s boring here. I don’t want to be here. I have to get out of here. It’s boring here. I don’t want to be here!

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    Jasmine wrote on her desk.

    I wrote that on my desk, top to bottom, in the classroom. Then I took out my blue highlighter and drew pictures of hearts in my class notebook. As I drew, I thought about my dad. My dad was in the US Army. I missed him. I stopped drawing. I sat still and thought a little more: Some folks think that troublemakers are annoying people who just want attention. And you know what? A lot of them are. But I am not a troublemaker. It’s just that it’s boring here. I don’t like it here. I have to get

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