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Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson [Woodson, Jacqueline] is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Before the Ever After about?

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed.For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that—but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when...

Who reads Before the Ever After?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
Jacqueline Woodson [Woodson, Jacqueline]
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
2020
Language
EN
Category
children's
Subjects
Children'S, Contemporary Fiction, Juvenile
Rating
4.6 / 5 (653 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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