Jacquinita Rose

Biography

Jacquinita A. Rose (1967 - ) was born in Phoenix, AZ. She was raised in Oklahoma by her Grandparents, LeRoy & Roberta Johnson. Her first novel, Shhh, Grown Folks Is Talking, pays homage to the wisdom and guidance she received from her grandfather and grandmother. Jacquinita enjoys mathematics, science, and literature. She has taught various subjects in mathematics for more than twenty years. Her love of literature began at an early age with her first reading of Mildred D. Taylor's, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Robert Frost's, The Road Not Taken.

Jacquinita has many pursuits which include writing the "Great American Math Novel" and "The Great American Short Story".

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Books

Shhh, Grown Folks Is Talking
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,430. Language: American English. Published: October 23, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Children's Books » Girls & Women, Fiction » African American fiction » Urban life
Growing up Jackie was full of questions, most of which she gained the answers to through a good dose of home-grown wisdom from the grandparents who raised her. In her down-to-earth Southern style she weaves true tales of learning how to decipher the code of "grown-folks" speech, the proper way to behave in a traditional Baptist church, as well as the pleasure of eating fresh cornbread...