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Renée Watson

Författare till Piecing Me Together

24+ verk 4,335 medlemmar 191 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnen: Renée Watson, Renée Watson

Serier

Verk av Renée Watson

Piecing Me Together (2017) 1,194 exemplar
Ways to Make Sunshine (2020) 471 exemplar
Watch Us Rise (2019) 398 exemplar
This Side of Home (2015) 316 exemplar
Betty Before X (2018) 270 exemplar
Some Places More Than Others (2019) 254 exemplar
Ways to Grow Love (2021) 224 exemplar
Love Is a Revolution (2021) 211 exemplar
What Momma Left Me (2010) 144 exemplar
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (2010) 107 exemplar
Maya’s Song (2022) 35 exemplar
Ways to Share Joy (2022) 34 exemplar
She Persisted: Oprah Winfrey (2021) 15 exemplar

Associerade verk

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 529 exemplar
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 377 exemplar
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 177 exemplar
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 106 exemplar
Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories about Living Fabulously Fat (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Watson, Renée
Födelsedag
1978-07-29
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Paterson, New Jersey, USA

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Born on the Water is a beautiful book! The illustrations capture the content, tone, and emotions of the poetry so well. I thought the introduction to slavery and its trauma is honest, but sensitive to young readers. The accurate portrayal of the West African societies from which slaves were kidnapped gives all young readers, but especially young African American readers, an important context for those captured into slavery and the cultural influences seen among enslaved people in the United States and their descendants. This book also celebrates the determination, strength, and resilience of African Americans to create new lives out of such tragedy. Both authors note that they want African American readers to come away empowered and to reflect about their roots -- reading this book is a wonderful way to start such reflection.

I also see this book as important resource for teachers to use in the classroom, offering all students to reflect on the consequences of slavery in the United States, Black resistance and civil rights, and what it means to call oneself "American".
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AnnesLibrary | 22 andra recensioner | Jan 28, 2024 |
I liked this book, although I did skim through the middle. It is not a dramatic feeling book, although it could have been, based on the plot points. Good for teens who like realistic fiction with no love drama.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 56 andra recensioner | Jan 13, 2024 |
This book has an old fashioned, well manned protagonist that feels refreshing and simple and good. Were it not for the descriptions of lynchings and police murders, this book would be easy to fit on a list of books for sheltered children. It is full of the religious optimism of its adolescent main character Betty. the writing was very good, full of rich descriptive passages.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 13 andra recensioner | Jan 13, 2024 |
I had not heard of this book until my library added it to their digital collection. I'm so glad I stumbled across it! The audiobook was read beautifully by the author herself, and the writing was so poetic.
 
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Dances_with_Words | 56 andra recensioner | Jan 6, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
24
Även av
7
Medlemmar
4,335
Popularitet
#5,786
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
191
ISBN
131
Språk
2
Favoritmärkt
1

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