Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
New York Times bestseller
Timely and timeless. --Jacqueline Woodson
Important and deeply moving. --John Green
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.
NPR's Best Books of 2017
A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017
Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017
2018 Josette Frank Award Winner
