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While Erika comes to realize that she only likes white boys, "The Ugly One" has to come to terms with her own self-worth, in a collection of short stories about girls dealing with their identities, their relationships, and their place in the world, now published with two bonus stories. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Original.
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Sharon G. Flake won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for her first novel The Skin I'm In and is a two-time Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book winner. Beloved by children and adults, critics and booksellers, librarians and teachers, she is the author of a middle-grade novel and five books for young adults that have sold more than half a million copies. The mother of a college-age daughter, Flake writes full-time from her home in Pittsburgh. To learn more about Ms. Flake, please visit her at www.sharongflake.com.
10 stories on universal themes written in the vernacular of urban teens. Teens laugh, cry, scheme and dream about the opposite sex in this fascinating short-story collection spanning the scope of adolescent love. These stories are often humorous, always on-point expositions of youth determined to find self-worth, any way they know how. Confronted daily with tough issues that seem only to increase as the school day wears on, adolescents of all complexions struggle to make a place for themselves in society while defining their significance in terms of their allure to the other gender. Sharon Flake's top-notch writing, delicate sensibility and exceptional insight into the world of boys and girls turning into young men and women keeps readers riveted from beginning to end, consumed by these fast-paced, intelligent pages stories.
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Sharon G. Flake won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for her first novel The Skin I'm In and is a two-time Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book winner. Beloved by children and adults, critics and booksellers, librarians and teachers, she is the author of a middle-grade novel and five books for young adults that have sold more than half a million copies. The mother of a college-age daughter, Flake writes full-time from her home in Pittsburgh. To learn more about Ms. Flake, please visit her at www.sharongflake.com.
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- PublisherJump at the Sun
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786815043
- ISBN 13 9780786815043
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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