02005nam a22002897i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003800062040002500100082001400125100003700139245004100176264003400217264001100251300002300262336002100285337002500306338002300331500007200354520106600426586007401492650003201566650003601598650003801634655002401672655001901696OSt20200127111909.0200127t20172018enk    g      000 1beng d  a9781408897348cRM46.90qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a813.61 aWatson, Renée,d1978-eauthor.10aPIECING ME TOGETHER /cREN'EE WATSON 1aLondon : bBloomsbury, c2018 4c©2017  a263 pages :c20 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aOriginally published: Bloomsbury Children's Books : New York, 2017.  aAcclaimed 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  aWINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD 2018 NEWBERY HONOR BOOK10aMentoringvJuvenile fiction20aHigh schools vJuvenile fiction20aPrivate schoolsvJuvenile fiction7 aYoung adult fiction7 aSchool stories