Piecing Me Together is a 2017 YA novel, a Newbery Honor book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Jade, a teenager from Portland, Oregon, tells her story of being poor, black and on scholarship to prestigious St. Francis school on other side of town. Jade is an excellent student and an artist who has much to offer and who is eager to break out of her neighborhood. As she navigates two worlds — the neighborhood called the New Columbia and the world of […]
“Why am I only seen as someone who needs and not someone who can give?”
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson