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Piecing Me Together
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2017
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17 editions
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Love Is a Revolution
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2021
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11 editions
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Ways to Make Sunshine (Ryan Hart, #1)
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2020
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11 editions
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Watch Us Rise
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2019
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8 editions
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Some Places More Than Others
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2019
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11 editions
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Skin & Bones
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2024
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6 editions
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This Side of Home
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2015
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8 editions
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Black Girl You Are Atlas
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All the Blues in the Sky
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What Momma Left Me
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2010
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13 editions
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“I don't know what's worse. Being mistreated because of the color of your skin, your size, or having to prove that it really happened.”
― Piecing Me Together
― Piecing Me Together
“I know something happens between the time our mothers and fathers and teachers and mentors send us out into the world telling us, "The world is yours," and "You are beautiful," and "You can be anything," and the time we return to them.
Something happens when people tell me I have a pretty face, ignoring me from the neck down. When I watch the news and see unarmed black men and women shot dead over and over, it's kind of hard to believe this world is mine.
Sometimes it feels like I leave home a whole person, sent off with kisses from Mom, who is hanging her every hope on my future. By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces.
Mom's love repairs me.”
― Piecing Me Together
Something happens when people tell me I have a pretty face, ignoring me from the neck down. When I watch the news and see unarmed black men and women shot dead over and over, it's kind of hard to believe this world is mine.
Sometimes it feels like I leave home a whole person, sent off with kisses from Mom, who is hanging her every hope on my future. By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces.
Mom's love repairs me.”
― Piecing Me Together
“Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there’s a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same.”
― Piecing Me Together
― Piecing Me Together
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What book should we read in April?
As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2025 Newbery contender and already published.
As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2025 Newbery contender and already published.
Ferris by Kate Dicamillo
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Coyote lost and found
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Heroes
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Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing
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heroes
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May I add olivetti by Allie millington?
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black girl you are atlas
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One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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