Overview
Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot? they?re about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him?is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Full Product Details
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780399252808
ISBN 10: 0399252800
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 07 January 2010
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
?Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship.? -""Publisher's Weekly"" Woodson s perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship. -""Publisher's Weekly"" ""Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship."" -""Publisher's Weekly""
?Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship.? - Publisher's Weekly
Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship. - Publisher's Weekly <br><br>
Woodson s perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. . . . She shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship. - Publisher's Weekly
Author Information
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir BROWN GIRL DREAMING, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include THE OTHER SIDE, EACH KINDNESS, Caldecott Honor Book COMING ON HOME SOON; Newbery Honor winners FEATHERS, SHOW WAY, and AFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER, and MIRACLE'S BOYS which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award and was adapted into a miniseries directed by Spike Lee. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature, the winner of the Jane Addams Children s Book Award, and was the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.""
