What Momma Left Me: From the winner of the Newbery Medal 2026
Feb 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Piecing Me Together, a 2018 Newbery Honor Book and a Coretta Scott King Author Award-winner: a powerful novel about finding where you belong and the light in dark places
'Warm, rich and satisfying' Kirkus
Serenity knows she is good at keeping secrets, and she's got a whole lifetime's worth of them.
Her mother is dead, her father is gone, and she and her brother have to start over again by moving in with their grandparents. At first, things seem like they could be good: a new friend, a new church, a new school.
But when her brother seems to be going down the wrong path, the old fears set in. Will he end up like their dad? Will she end up like their mum?
In this exquisite coming of age story, Serenity discovers it is the power of love that keeps you sure of who you are, and who you will become.
'Warm, rich and satisfying' Kirkus
Serenity knows she is good at keeping secrets, and she's got a whole lifetime's worth of them.
Her mother is dead, her father is gone, and she and her brother have to start over again by moving in with their grandparents. At first, things seem like they could be good: a new friend, a new church, a new school.
But when her brother seems to be going down the wrong path, the old fears set in. Will he end up like their dad? Will she end up like their mum?
In this exquisite coming of age story, Serenity discovers it is the power of love that keeps you sure of who you are, and who you will become.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Piecing Me Together, a 2018 Newbery Honor Book and a Coretta Scott King Author Award-winner: a powerful novel about finding where you belong and the light in dark places
'Warm, rich and satisfying' Kirkus
Serenity knows she is good at keeping secret...
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About the author
Renée Watson is the New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ellen Hagan, and Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She is the founder of I, Too Arts Collective, a non-profit-making organisation committed to nurturing under-represented voices in the creative arts, and currently lives in New York City.
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Renée Watson is the New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ellen Hagan, and Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as two acclaimed pictur...
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