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Piecing Me Together
Contributor(s): Watson, Renée (Author)
ISBN: 1681191059     ISBN-13: 9781681191058
Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2016023127
Lexile Measure: 680
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 187729
Reading Level: 4.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

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

Acclaimed author Renee 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 away from her friends and 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 Women to Women, 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 of 2017
A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017
Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017
2018 Josette Frank Award Winner


Contributor Bio(s): Watson, Renee: - Renée Watson grew up in Portland Oregon, came to New York for her degree in writing, and now teaches poetry in the New York City Schools. Her books include Betty Before X, Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, and What Momma Left Me which debuted as the New Voice for 2010 in middle grade fiction by The Independent Children's Booksellers Association.