The Skin I'm In
Ratings7
Average rating4
15
Ratings7
Average rating4
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.
Featured Prompt
71 booksThe publishing industry has struggled to embrace new voices. Many amazing authors have managed to get their voices out–overcoming all obstacles. What books stand out to you as your favorites by bla...
Series
2 primary booksThe Skin I'm In is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Sharon G. Flake.
Reviews with the most likes.
An important story that I wish I had read in my teen years. Still an important story now as an adult, but I wish I would have had the same mentality portrayed in the book–to love yourself and the skin you're in–as a teen. Then again, maybe I wouldn't have had the same mentality and understanding as I do now. But all the same, this book is beautiful. A simple coming-of-age story, not complicated, and not overly dramatic or too unrealistic in its portrayal of teenagers.
Definitely a book I would read to kids and teenagers!
Quotes:
“Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.”
“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”
“″You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don't, who will?″”
“You have to take a stand when things aren't right.”
“Call me by my name! I hear Akeelma say, and I scream it out, too. “Call me by my name! I am not ugly. I am not stupid. I am Maleeka Madison, and, yeah, I'm black, real black, and if you don't like me, too bad ‘cause black is the skin I'm in!”
