PIECING ME TOGETHER

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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. And Jade has: every day she rid es 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 Jade. 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 her pain. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference. Show more