Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

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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.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - 12-17 Years
    • Format - Paperback
    • Product dimensions - 5.5" W x 7.7" H x 0.9" D
    • Genre - Fiction
    • Publisher - Bloomsbury USA, Publication date - 06-05-2018
    • Page count - 288
    • ISBN - 9781681191072
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3 years ago
from California

Amazing Book!

This was such an amazing book to read and embrace. I am very glad that this book is a New York Times bestseller because of all the imagery and topics this book goes over and how it talks about all of her inner thoughts about things that are happening and how this book gives an insight into the world of someone who is a woman in a poor neighborhood, who faces racism and problems with friendship. It goes over topics that should be talked about more. For this reason, I believe it is good that this is a New York Times best seller.

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4 years ago
from FlemingIsland

What. A read !

I really enjoyed every bit of this. Read it in three days or so ? But I don’t like the ending. It literally ended out of no where. Right in the middle of an event I turn the page and nothing.

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5 years ago
from America

Awesome Read

So I had been eyeing this book at the library for a while now (mostly because of the gorgeous cover), and I finally decided to check it out. Even since the first chapter, I had instantly been hook. I must admit that I call myself a bookworm, but for months, I had not been in a mood to read. This book got me excited to read again, and now I’m more than 2/3 done with “Heartless” by Marissa Meyer, and I only started reading about 5 days ago.( it’s a pretty lengthy read) It might not seem like a lot of reading, but I have not really been motivated to do anything productive for a while, but now I spend hours reading. Though I happen to be African American like the main character, I have never faced discrimination or racism like her, so it’s good to read stories like this to remind myself how fortunate I am. ”Piecing me Together” is a nice quick read for all ages, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in reading about the way that black people are still being treated to this day, even though racism was supposed to be put away with many years ago. <3

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5 years ago
from Southern California

Exquisite book

I found this book to be exquisite. It is a coming of age story written from the perspective of a poor Black teen, Jade, on scholarship at a private school located a long bus ride from home. Jade's story intersects in complicated ways with the stories of those in her life: the wealthy Black female mentor Jade never wanted; the poor White classmate who shares Jade's bus ride to school; and her mother, who is often absent while working to support them. It is a beautiful story, interspersed with equally beautiful reflections in verse that capture what it feels like for Jade to dream and take advantage of opportunities while also resenting those who want to "save" her, how to claim her beauty in a world intent on telling her she is not beautiful, and how to use her voice on behalf of herself and others. This would be an excellent book club book

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5 years ago

fast read

It was more detailed than i thought it would be but I finished fast.

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