Sharon Flakeâs award-winning debut novel
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If theyâre not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, itâs 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 teacherâs attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin sheâs in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?
"Funny and clever ⊠will pull readers into a world too rarely represented in middle-grade fiction."âBooklist
