# This Side of Home - Hardcover

by **Renée Watson** (Author)

**From _New York Times_ bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author** **Ren e Watson comes a captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban novel about sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change.**

Maya Younger and her identical twin sister, Nikki, have always agreed on the important things. Friends. Boys. School. They even plan to attend the same historically African American college.  
But nothing can always remain the same.

As their Portland neighborhood goes from rough-and-tumble to up-and-coming, Maya feels her connection to Nikki and their community slipping away. Nikki spends more time at trendy coffee shops than backyard barbecues, and their new high school principal is more committed to erasing the neighborhood's ghetto reputation than honoring its history. Home doesn't feel like home anymore. As Maya struggles to hold on to her black heritage, she begins to wonder with whom--or where--she belongs. Does growing up have to mean growing apart?

### Author Biography

**Renée Watson** is a _New York Times_ bestselling author. Her novel, _Piecing Me Together,_ received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include _Ways to Make Sunshine_, _Some Places More Than Others_, _This Side of Home_, _What Momma Left Me_, _Betty Before X_, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, and _Watch Us Rise_, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, 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. Renée grew up in Portland, Oregon, and splits her time between Portland and New York City.

www.reneewatson.net  
@harlemportland (Instagram)

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** February 03, 2015

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** This Side of Home

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 4.4

**Point Value:** 8

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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