TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Renée
TI  - Piecing me together
SN  - 9781681191058
AV  - PZ7.W32868 Pi 2017
U1  - FIC WAT 23
KW  - Mentoring
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - High schools
KW  - Private schools
KW  - African American high school students
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Young adult works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - ages 12 - up; Accelerated Reader; ARinterest; ARreading; ARpoints; ARtest
N2  - Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls; "Acclaimed 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."
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