Piecing Me Collectively

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Writer Award Winner
New York Occasions bestseller
“Well timed and timeless.” –Jacqueline Woodson
“Necessary and deeply shifting.” –John Inexperienced

Acclaimed creator Renee Watson presents a strong story a couple of woman striving for achievement in a world that too typically looks as if it is attempting to interrupt her.

Jade believes she should get out of her poor neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mom tells her to reap the benefits of each alternative that comes her means. And Jade has: daily she rides the bus away from her pals and to the non-public faculty the place she seems like an outsider, however the place she has loads of alternatives. However some alternatives she does not actually welcome, like an invite to hitch Ladies to Ladies, a mentorship program for “at-risk” ladies. Simply because her mentor is black and graduated from the identical highschool doesn’t suggest she understands the place Jade is coming from. She’s bored with being singled out as somebody who wants assist, somebody folks need to repair. Jade needs to talk, to create, to precise her joys and sorrows, her ache and her hope. Possibly there are some issues she may present different ladies about understanding the world and discovering methods to be actual, to make a distinction.

NPR’s Greatest Books of 2017
A 2017 New York Public Library Greatest Teen Ebook of the 12 months
Chicago Public Library’s Greatest Books of 2017
A Faculty Library Journal Greatest Ebook of 2017
Kirkus Evaluations’ Greatest Teen Books of 2017
2018 Josette Frank Award Winner