Piecing Me Together by Rene Watson

Piecing Me Together by Rene Watson

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
New York Times bestseller
"Timely and timeless." -Jacqueline Woodson
"Important and deeply moving." -John Green

Bestselling and Newbery Medal winning author Renée Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her.

Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join a mentorship program for "at-risk" girls. Just because her mentor is Black and graduated from the same high school doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. She's tired of being singled out as someone who needs help, someone people want to fix. Jade wants to speak, to create, to express her joys and sorrows, her pain and her hope. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference.

NPR's Best Books
A New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books
A School Library Journal Best Book
Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books
Josette Frank Award Winner

Piecing Me Together, her novel, won a Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Prize. Love is a Revolution, Ways to Create Sunshine, Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Mother Leave Me, Betty Before X, and Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as two notable picture publications: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, are among her books. www.reneewatson.net/harlemportland/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor/reneewauthor

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781681191072
ISBN 10	1681191075
Title	Piecing Me Together
Author	Renée Watson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2018-06-05
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2018, Commended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 2018
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.