#1 New York Times bestseller Renée Watson explores friendship and life with loss in a poignant, Newbery Medal winning novel in verse and vignettes. Sage’s thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about watching movies and baking treats, about staying up late with her best friend. She never thought it would be about her best friend’s death.
Suddenly Sage is left without the person she had to hold her secrets or to dream with. And the worst part—it’s all her fault. She joins a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them. But not all losses are the same, and healing isn’t predictable. Sage isn’t sure she’ll ever stop feeling guilty about moving on, even as new friends and a new crush enter her life. As Sage learns to grieve her friend and accept the unacceptable, she also might need to learn to how to forgive herself.
Written in an accessible and engaging verse and prose, this is a moving story of a girl who is finding her way to healing.
Renée Watson is a #1
New York Times bestselling author. Her novel
All the Blues in the Sky won the Newbery Medal, and
Piecing Me Together received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award
. Her books include the Ryan Hart series,
Some Places More Than Others,
This Side of Home,
What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz,
Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, and
Love Is a Revolution, as well as acclaimed picture books:
Summer Is Here,
Maya’s Song,
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, written with Nikole Hannah-Jones,
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, and
Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City. www.reneewatson.net • @reneewauthor