Piecing Me Together
From the winner of the Newbery Medal 2026
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2018
272 pages
978-1-4088-9733-1 (ISBN)
Description
2018 Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner: a beautiful, powerful coming of age story
'Important and deeply moving' JOHN GREEN
'Timely and timeless' JACQUELINE WOODSON
Jade is a girl striving for success in a world that seems like it's trying to break her.
She knows she needs to take every opportunity that comes her way. And she has: every day Jade rides the bus away from her friends to a private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities.
But some opportunities Jade could do without, like the mentor programme for 'at-risk' girls. Just because her mentor is black doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. Why is Jade always seen as someone to fix? But with a college scholarship promised at the end of it, how can Jade say no?
Jade feels like her life is made up of hundreds of conflicting pieces. Will it ever fit together? Will she ever find her place in the world? More than anything, Jade just wants the opportunity 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
'Important and deeply moving' JOHN GREEN
'Timely and timeless' JACQUELINE WOODSON
Jade is a girl striving for success in a world that seems like it's trying to break her.
She knows she needs to take every opportunity that comes her way. And she has: every day Jade rides the bus away from her friends to a private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities.
But some opportunities Jade could do without, like the mentor programme for 'at-risk' girls. Just because her mentor is black doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. Why is Jade always seen as someone to fix? But with a college scholarship promised at the end of it, how can Jade say no?
Jade feels like her life is made up of hundreds of conflicting pieces. Will it ever fit together? Will she ever find her place in the world? More than anything, Jade just wants the opportunity 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
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: Seventh Grade and over, Reading Age: From 12 years
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-9733-1 (9781408897331)
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Bloomsbury Childrens Books
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Person
RENÉE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author of the novels Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, and two picture books: Harlem's Little Blackbird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. Renée is the founder of I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts. She lives in New York City.
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Content
- Cover
- Praise for Piecing Me Together
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1 español
- 2 tener éxito
- 3 dejar
- 4 querer
- 5 promesa
- 6 historia
- 7 arte
- 8 algo en común
- 9 esperar
- 10 presentar
- 11 buenos días
- 12 amiga
- 13 hija
- 14 feliz cumpleaños
- 15 el pelo
- 16 regalo
- 17 mi padre
- 18 fotografiar
- 19 libros
- 20 doce
- 21 mujer a mujer
- 22 almorzar
- 23 reír
- 24 tener hambre
- 25 llamar
- 26 el barrio
- 27 agradecido
- 28 las diferencias
- 29 la llorona
- 30 feliz navidad
- 31 víspera de Año Nuevo
- 32 hermanas
- 33 lo mismo
- 34 pertenecer
- 35 negro
- 36 comer
- 37 mi madre
- 38 vestido
- 39 música
- 40 el río
- 41 familia
- 42 saber
- 43 tener dolor
- 44 hablar
- 45 la verdad
- 46 abandonar
- 47 orar
- 48 fantasma
- 49 el teléfono
- 50 respirar
- 51 borrar
- 52 perseverar
- 53 para abogar
- 54 la primavera
- 55 miedo
- 56 liberar
- 57 silencio
- 58 pieza por pieza
- 59 escuchar
- 60 anticiparse
- 61 las manos
- 62 practicar
- 63 soledad
- 64 oportunidad
- 65 confianza
- 66 la tarea
- 67 renacimiento
- 68 legado
- 69 trabajar
- 70 arreglar
- 71 redimir
- 72 perdón
- 73 microfono abierto
- 74 la gente
- 75 poema
- 76 libertad
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
