Piecing me together / Renée Watson.
2017
PZ7.W32868 Pi 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Piecing me together / Renée Watson.
Author
ISBN
9781681191058 (hardcover)
1681191059 (hardcover)
9781681191065
1681191059 (hardcover)
9781681191065
Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Language
English
Description
264 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PZ7.W32868 Pi 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
"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." --Amazon.
"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." --Amazon.
Audience
680L Lexile
Awards
Newbery Honor, 2018.
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2018.
Jane Addams Honor, 2018.
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2018.
Jane Addams Honor, 2018.
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