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SpineOut : February - March 2018
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PIECING ME TOGETHER MEET THE AUTHOR 2 Author Renee Watson tells us about her new book, Piecing Me Together, which has already won a swag of awards including the 2018 Newbery Honor Award. It is 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 neighbourhood 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. PAGE ONE ABOUT THEBOOK WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER
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