Christina Soontornvat talks about how escaping into books helped her feel less alone and different at school, where 87 percent of the student body was White.
Woodson’s interest in cultural differences and how people search for meaning in the world led her to create the deaf character Sean in her novel Feathers.
Jacqueline Woodson tries to bring her readers into the wider world and inspire them to start asking questions like “What would I do in this situation?”
