Ways to Share Joy

Ages 7 to 10

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. 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.

With more challenges, change, and more lessons learned, book three of the Ryan Hart Series has even more humor, love, sunshine, and joy!

About the Author

Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel Piecing Me Together received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. Her other books include the Ryan Hart series, Some Places More Than Others, Love Is a Revolution, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, and Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, as well as the acclaimed picture books Maya’s Song, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, cowritten with Nikole Hannah-Jones, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, and Harlem’s Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée grew up in Portland, Oregon, where this book is set, and now splits her time between Portland and New York City. www.reneewatson.net • @reneewauthor