The Skin I'm in

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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Flake, Sharon
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Flake, Sharon	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

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Great submitted by joyjoy24 on June 26, 2014, 6:19pm This book was great to read! You can really get into it

5 stars submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 12, 2018, 10:39am A late elementary/ middle school book that is character-driven about a dark-skinned Black girl who is bullied and trying to fit in. A new teacher changes the school dynamics, and this throws the whole plan. An excellent book for discussing friendships, race, peer pressure, personal background of others that we don't know/see, and responsibility. Well written, and another of the kind of books that helps a reader look at the world from someone else's eyes.

Excellent story! submitted by ahlalejini on July 21, 2022, 9:18am Check out this one and then read The Life I'm In which was written 20 years later- both great!