# 1New York Timesbestselling and Newbery Honor author Rene Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant new novel in verse and vignettes.

Sage’s thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. WIthout the person she had to hold her secrets and dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn’t predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, pain, love. And even as Sage grieves, new, good things enter her life — and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.

In accessible, engaging verse and prose, this is an important story of a girl’s journey to heal, grow, and forgive herself. To read it is to see how many shades there are in grief, and to know that someone understands.

Rene Watsonis a #1New York Timesbestselling author. Her novel,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, andLove 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, andHarlem’s Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Rene splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.
www.reneewatson.net
@reneewauthor

• Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publish Date:February 04, 2025
• Pages:208
• Dimensions: 5.51 X 1.0 X 8.250 inches | 1.0 pounds
• Language:English
• Type:Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781547605897
• BISAC Categories: Social Themes – Death, Grief, Bereavement, Social Themes – Friendship