Bibliograph

Piecing me together, Renée Watson

Type

Label

Piecing me together, Renée Watson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

680L, Lexile

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Piecing me together

Oclc number

948336456

Responsibility statement

Renée Watson

Series statement

Newbery Medal Honor 2018Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner 2018

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader.ARinterest.ARreading.ARpoints.ARtest.Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 4.5, 7, 187729.

Summary

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

Target audience

adolescent

Creator