- Fiction, Teachers, Schools, African Americans
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Sharon G. Flake
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 171
- Publisher
- Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786813070
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