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The super-savvy, super-smart author Renée Watson (her most recent young adult novel, PIECING ME TOGETHER, is out now!) and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective, talks taking herself seriously as a writer from a young age, creative therapy for young people, and finding people who are about something.   Renée Watson Show Notes An article about Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian student killed by three neo-Nazis in Portland. Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories Judy Blume BEEZUS AND RAMONA by Beverly Cleary Lucille Clifton (poet) Gwendolyn Brooks (poet) Langston Hughes   Zora Neale Hurston Toni Morrison A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN  by Renée Watson   THIS SIDE OF HOME by Renée Watson Sarah McCarry   WHAT MOMMA LEFT ME by Renée Watson Community-Work Project (NYC education organization) DreamYard (NYC education organization) Christian Robinson, illustrator Meg Medina Jason Reynolds I, Too Arts Collective Langston Hughes, “I, Too”