Piecing Me Together, Renee Watson
Piecing Me Together, Renee Watson
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Piecing Me Together

Author: Renée Watson

Narrator: Renée Watson

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/06/2018


Synopsis

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner New York Times bestseller

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.

NPR's Best Books of 2017
A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017
Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017
2018 Josette Frank Award Winner

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on April 13, 2017

And this makes me wonder if a black girl’s life is only about being stitched together and coming undone, being stitched together and coming undone. I wonder if there’s ever a way for a girl like me to feel whole. Piecing Me Together is such an important and moving book. It released during Black Hi......more

Goodreads review by Cece on February 06, 2018

I just cried through the last 40 pages of this. Absolutely incredible.......more

Goodreads review by emma on July 18, 2020

Two things about this book: 1) Most social issue-focused YA contemporaries should pay attention to this one. Like, calling all of you: it's possible to write about important topics without having dry-ass narratives and characters I don't care about!! 2) I should have read it a long time ago. Bottom lin......more

Goodreads review by Malia on January 15, 2018

This is the sort of quiet, underrated book that really deserves more attention. It is probably not dramatic or dark enough to make much of a wave. However, it is so relevant and really makes you think about race in this country and also about the enormous hurdles faced by families living in poverty.......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on December 08, 2017

I read this book based on two people's recommendations that it was game-changing and eye-opening. On one hand, I do like that this book brings up issues that I haven't seen before in any other books about a young, black teenager, such as reconciling privilege and advocating for racism as a bystander......more