While reading the first entry of the book I was already hooked. My first initial thought after reading the first entry was “what kind of life will Jacqueline Amanda Woodson have?”. I predict that she will have her own moment, something big and powerful will happen to her and that moment in her life will change her forever. Dreaming of her life and different scenarios were part of her. While reading this book I wonder what kind of dreams Jacqueline would have? I predicted something big because her parents are always encouraging. There are so many raw emotion and feelings throughout the book. I noticed that they made each day, each memory in their lives count. Their families meant everything to them. The mom always talked about how South Caroline was her home and where she had her memories in her…show more content… This is when her new chapters start to unfold. She starts to believe in faith and God. She sees that everything happens for a reason. She wants to be someone. I believe that for her future she will have babies and pass on her traditions, faith and ways of thinking and living on to them. After reading the first entry you see the change from little “baby girl” to a caring, loving older sibling. Jacqueline finally gets to call New York her home. She makes new friends and her friends become so close that she calls them family. They talked and ate like her blood family and now she was sharing her old memories and making new ones in the process. Not all the memories were good. There were a few like Aunt Kay dying, but they still got through it. Jacqueline really found herself when she got her composition notebook. She was so proud of her name and counted her blessing. While playing games with her siblings she would also come up with stories and because of these stories she knew she was different from the others. She knew she heard things differently and thought