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Piecing me together / Renée Watson.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.W32868 Pi 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Renée, author.
- Series:
- Newbery Medal Honor 2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentoring--Juvenile fiction.
- Mentoring.
- Private schools--Juvenile fiction.
- Private schools.
- African American high school students--Attitudes--Juvenile fiction.
- African American high school students.
- African American girls--Juvenile fiction.
- African American girls.
- Mentoring--Fiction.
- High schools--Fiction.
- Schools--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African American high school students--Attitudes.
- Young adult fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Novels.
- Young adult fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2018.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes excerpt from This side of home.
- Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2018
- Newbery Honor, 2018
- School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Watson, Renée. Piecing me together.
- ISBN:
- 9781681191072
- 1681191075
- OCLC:
- 948336456
- Publisher Number:
- 99990666149
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