From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Woodson, Jacqueline

ISBN 10: 0399252800 / ISBN 13: 9780399252808

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

Title: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

A Coretta Scott King Honor title finds Melanin Sun recording in a personal notebook his thoughts about his relationship with his single-parent mother, who reveals that she is gay and in love with a white woman. By the Newbery-winning author of After Tupac and D Foster.

Review:

Woodson s perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. Offering no easy answers, Woodson teaches the reader that love can lead to acceptance of all manner of differences. "Publishers Weekly"

?Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. Offering no easy answers, Woodson teaches the reader that love can lead to acceptance of all manner of differences. "Publishers Weekly"

"Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. Offering no easy answers, Woodson teaches the reader that love can lead to acceptance of all manner of differences." - "Publishers Weekly"