Piecing Me Together
by Renée Watson
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 780L (~4th grade) · 264 pages · 2017
Why we'd hand it over
Quiet, unflinching portrait of a girl learning to trust her own vision—both literal (through collage) and metaphorical—when adults and peers constantly frame her through their own biases; the collage illustrations are structural, not decorative.