'Piecing Me Together' Novelist Says She Writes To Help Kids Feel Seen
Renée Watson won the Coretta Scott King Award for her novel about a black student at a mostly white private school.
Renée Watson's young adult novel Piecing Me Together tells the story of Jade, a Portland, Ore., high school student with "coal skin and hula-hoop hips." Jade has won a scholarship to St. Francis, a private school that's mostly white. She makes friends and does well, but she also feels the school sees her as some kind of project — and she doesn't like it.
A mentor named Maxine comes into her life with a program called
