Piecing Me Together. “Jade's narrative voice offers compelling reflections on the complexities of race and gender, class and privilege, and fear and courage, while conveying the conflicted emotions of an ambitious, loyal girl. Teeming with compassion and insight, Watson's story trumpets the power of artistic expression to re-envision and change the world.” –starred review, Publishers Weekly. Watson's elegantly crafted novel speaks to the myriad of people who find themselves searching for themselves in the world. Timely and timeless, Piecing Me Together is a book about the ways young people deal with the hardships and heartbreak of everyday living while remaining whole and true to themselves. There is a little bit of Jade in all of bltadwin.ru: · Renée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Brand: Bloomsbury USA.
—PIECING ME TOGETHER (p. 85) ABOUT THIS GUIDE This guide seeks to explore how Jade in PIECING ME TOGETHER by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury) is "shattered into a million pieces" and how she and her community stitch her back together each day. Jade asks, "I wonder if there's ever a way for a girl like me to feel whole." That is a question. Overview. Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson is a young adult novel published in In , it won the Coretta Scott King Award from the American Library Award Association and was named a Newbery Honor Book by the Association for Library Service to Children. The novel comprises 76 chapters, each of which is given a bilingual title in English and Spanish. Renée Watson is the author of the children's picture book, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (Random House, June ), which was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Her middle grade novel, What Momma Left Me debuted as the New Voice for in middle grade fiction by The Independent Children's Booksellers Association.
Piecing Me Together Summary. In some ways, Jade feels like she must leave her neighborhood in order to succeed: she buses out of her North Portland neighborhood every day to attend St. Francis, a private high school on the other side of town where she has a full scholarship. Piecing Me Together. “Jade's narrative voice offers compelling reflections on the complexities of race and gender, class and privilege, and fear and courage, while conveying the conflicted emotions of an ambitious, loyal girl. Teeming with compassion and insight, Watson's story trumpets the power of artistic expression to re-envision and change the world.” –starred review, Publishers Weekly. Parents need to know that Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. It's the story of a year-old high-achieving African American high school student on scholarship at an exclusive, mostly white Portland, Oregon, private school, who gets help from a mentor and defies stereotypes.
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