Renee Watson

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Ryan Hart Novel

1 - Ways to Make Sunshine (May-2020)
2 - Ways to Grow Love (May-2021)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • A Place Where Hurricanes Happen

    Natural and man-made disasters are becoming more commonplace in children's lives, and this touching free-verse picture book provides a straightforward account of Hurricane Katrina. In alternating voices, four friends describe their lives before, duri...

  • What Momma Left Me

    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 starting life over at her grandparents' house is strange. Luckily, certain things seem to hold promise: a new f...

  • This Side of Home

    Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for everything-friends, school, boys and starting off their adult lives at a historically African-American college. But as their neighborhood goes from rough-and-tumble to up-and-coming, sudde...

  • Piecing Me Together

    Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her moth...

  • The illusions continue

    Book two in duology series of "Everyday Illusions", a compilation of spoken word poetry and entertaining word searches, to enjoy and be uplifted. A style of writing different from your average authors and poets....

  • Watch Us Rise

    Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson teams up with poet Ellen Hagan in this YA feminist anthem about raising your voice. Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are tr...

  • Some Places More Than Others

    From Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Renée Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring middle-grade novel about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that m...

  • Ways to Make Sunshine

    A Ryan Hart Novel - 1

    From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. Ryan Hart has a lot on her mind--school, self-image...

  • Love Is a Revolution

    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.

    When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees ...



  • Ways to Grow Love

    A Ryan Hart Novel - 2

    Grow and glow with Ryan Hart! Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine.

    Ryan Hart loves her family an...

  • Ryan Hart 3

    Share your joy wherever you go! Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine. Ryan Hart is caught in the middle....

  • Ways to Build Dreams

    Dream big and grow up boldly! Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine.

    Middle school is just around the ...

  • Black Girl You Are Atlas

    A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class...

  • skin & bones

    Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature.From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately w...

  • Summer Is Here

    New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a picture-perfect summer day, from sunrise to sunset.

    Summer is here!
    No dark clouds in the sky,
    it's a perfect day for play.
    ...

  • All the Blues in the Sky

    # 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant novel in verse and vignettes. Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up ...

Award-Winning Books by Renee Watson

Piecing Me Together
2018 Coretta Scott King Award -- Author


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Renee Watson has published 16 books.

The next book by Renee Watson, All the Blues in the Sky, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Renee Watson, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, was published in June 2010.

Yes. Renee Watson has 1 series.
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