I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Summary
Jacqueline Woodson

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Summary

"I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This" by Jacqueline Woodson is the story of twelve-year-old Marie, a black girl who lives in Chauncey, Ohio, with her father who is a college professor. Chauncey, Ohio, had been a mining community until the mines dried up. After that, the miners - many of whom were poor and white - moved to Athens to work in the factories there. But the factories began to...

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