Renée Watson is the author of the novel Piecing Me Together, which received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her other books include Ways to Make Sunshine, Ways to Grow Love, Some Places More Than Others, Betty Before X – co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz – and Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ellen Hagan. She is also the author of two picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird, nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Ryan, the title character in A Ryan Hart Story #3: Ways to Share Joy (Bloomsbury Children’s Books), is caught in the middle. She has an older brother and a new baby sister, and she’s in a friendship tug-of-war with two friends who both want to be her best best friend. How can Ryan think about being kind to a classmate who is relentless with his teasing? Or be her signature sunny self when her brother, Ray, pulls the ultimate prank? But even when it seems like nothing is going her way, Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things, refusing to let anything steal her joy and finding ways to share it with everyone she meets.
