A review by reikista
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

4.0

Jade is Black and lives in a rundown neighborhood, but her mother has enrolled her in an all-white, privileged school to help her get ahead. At the school, Jade is always getting “opportunities,” which are really responsibilities or gifts that others are imposing on her, including participating in Woman to Woman, a mentorship program of Black women for Black girls. But Jade misses her friend from the neighborhood and her new white friend at school doesn’t get the race thing, and her mentor is flaky and lets a flakier guy be the priority in her life. I loved this compassionate and heartfelt reflection of race and class in a teen’s life.