Piecing Me Together

Title: Piecing Me Together
Book List: Award Winning Teen Fiction for High Schoolers, Black Voices in Teen Fiction
Published by: Bloomsbury
Author: Watson, Renee
Genre: Teen
Pages: 277
ISBN13: 9781681191058

Winner Coretta Scott King Award 2018

 

Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mother says she has to take every opportunity. She has. She accepted a scholarship to a mostly-white private school and even Saturday morning test prep opportunities. But some opportunities feel more demeaning than helpful. Like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for “at-risk” girls. Except really, it’s for black girls. From “bad” neighborhoods.

But Jade doesn’t need support. And just because her mentor is black doesn’t mean she understands Jade. And maybe there are some things Jade could show these successful women about the real world and finding ways to make a real difference.

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