Piecing Me Together

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

Author: Renée Watson
Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781681191058
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 187729 / Piecing Me Together


Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2016
Booklist 12/01/2016 pg. 55
School Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 96
BookPage 02/01/2017
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2017 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2017 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2017 pg. 146
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2017 pg. 149 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author

Renée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Ways to Make Sunshine, Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée grew up in Portland, Oregon, and splits her time between Portland and New York City.

www.reneewatson.net
@harlemportland (Instagram)