The Skin I'm In (20th Anniversary Edition) by Sharon G. Flake

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Sharon Flake's award-winning debut novel, repackaged with a new cover just in time for it's 20th anniversary! Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - 12-17 Years
    • Format - Paperback
    • Dimensions - 5.5" W x 8.2" H x 0.65" D
    • Genre - Fiction
    • Publisher - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Publication date - 10/16/2018
    • Page count - 192
    • ISBN - 9781368019439

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3 years ago
from New York, NY

I Do Not Recommend

'The Skin I'm In' by Sharon Flake is about a middle school girl named Maleeka, who is constantly bullied by her peers. A new English teacher comes to Maleeka’s school, and she has a white spot on her face that drives children to tease her and not take her seriously. Maleeka befriends a mean girl named Charlese, for protection of the other kids who make fun of her. Maleeka gets in trouble because of Char, but later confesses it was Charlese's fault. Although the plot was rather interesting, the dialogue was very poor with slang that was difficult to make out, and the 'important' scenes were not very detailed.The narrator (Maleeka) is very slow at explaining the entire story, and you’re kind of just left there, thinking ‘Just say it already, I’m dying here’. I would not recommend this book, and I rate it a 2 out of 5.

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3 years ago
from New Hope, MN

Slow Read

This book was a slow read for me. I had to alternate between this book and another. Once the book started picking up it was a good read.

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