Piecing Me Together [Hardcover]

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
New York Timesbestseller

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 someopportunitiesshe 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'sBest Books of 2017
A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017
ASchool Library JournalBest Book of 2017
Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017
2018 Josette Frank Award Winner

Watsons elegantly crafted novel speaks to the myriad of people who find themselves searching for themselves in the world. Timely and timeless,Piecing Me Togetheris a book about the ways young people deal with the hardships and heartbreak of everyday living while remaining whole and true to themselves. There is a little bit of l³J