YA Kindle Book of The Day
Piecing Me Together
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
Today’s YA Kindle Deal is sponsored by this week’s Kids Book of The Week:
The Whojiwhajits
Josh and Kaylan just moved to a new neighborhood, and they soon realize that they have some interesting neighbors in the woods near their home. Bug-sized neighbors, to be precise.
The Whojiwhajits are hiding in Josh and Kaylan’s dimension –– the human world. And that’s not even the craziest part! The evil Koozog is out to capture the Whojiwhajits’ princess, Olivia, and he’s using every insect and minion he can to do it. With the help of Josh and Kaylan, some bug spray, an adopted stray dog that licks his butt, and another that smiles when he’s up to pure mischief, the Whojiwhajits hope to evade the Dark Lord Koozog once more and return to their kingdom and the few Whojiwhajits who are left.
The Whojiwhajits tells the harrowing, and downright hilarious, adventures of Josh, Kaylan, their two new furry friends, and the bravest Whojiwhajits ever to set foot in our world.