After School Event with Renée Watson

Join us at the Bookmarks bookstore for an afternoon with Renée Watson, author of All the Blues in the Sky (out 2/4). This free in-store event is perfect for middle grade readers, caregivers, and educators. Attendees can join us anytime between 4:00 - 5:30 pm.

Here's what you can expect:

• Meet author Renée Watson and get your books signed (you can bring books from home, too!)
• Enjoy some after school snacks
• Participate in a Dream Kite activity

You will have the opportunity to purchase your own copy of All the Blues in the Sky with your registration, and we will also have the author's books for sale at the event.

Bookmarks is donating copies of All the Blues in the Sky to students as part of our Authors in Schools initiative. If you would like to help support this financially, you can make a $10 donation with your event registration and help us increase access and ownership of books in Forsyth County. Learn more about our outreach programs and how you can support Bookmarks here.

To ask questions about accessibility or request accommodations, please contact Bookmarks at [email protected] or (336) 747-1471 x1001. At least two weeks' notice will allow us to provide the best experience possible for you and your guests.

Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling 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, and Love Is a Revolution, as well as acclaimed picture books: Maya's Song,
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, written with Nikole Hannah-Jones, A Place Where
Hurricanes Happen, and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP
Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.

# 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 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 a 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.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bookmarks, 634 West 4th Street, Winston-Salem, United States