Summary
Miss Saunders, a teacher with a skin condition, is teased by the students in the school because of what she looks like. Miss Saunders may be the only who can help 13-year-old Maleeka, an African-American girl, overcome her feelings of being an outcast because her skin is so dark. But will Maleeka see that she's no different from the rest of the kids? Winner of the 1999 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, Text.
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"Flake has a strong sense of the group dynamics among junior-high students....Readers looking for their own identities may find Maleeka's struggle and eventual triumph a heartening mirror to their own quest for self." -- Janice M. Del Negro
-- Bulletin of the Center for Children\'s Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Ages: 7 to 9
Pages: 173
Synopses
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.
Publisher's Notes
Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is very 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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