The Skin I'm In

The Skin I’m in is a book written by Sharon G. Flake. Sharon has written many other books such as: Money Hungry, Bang, Who am I without him, begging for change. All of her books teach young people the truth in life. This book is really explaining how a young African American girl named Maleeka, was teased and bullied for skin color! She soon meets a woman named Miss. Saunders and she tries to teach her to love herself as she is. Maleeka doesn’t want to listen and continues to be teased. A few other characters fall into the book like Maleeka’s new friend Charlese also known as Char. A boy in her class that is the main one who attempts to make fun of Maleeka is John-John. Then Maleeka’s crush is Caleb.

John-John teases Maleeka everywhere she goes. She can’t go into class without being teased about her skin color and how tall she is. John-John made up a rap about her talking about her skin color and how tall she is. Then Char is being a nice friend and helps Maleeka out by letting her borrow her clothes that she doesn’t wear anymore.  Miss. Saunders comes into the picture as Maleeka is walking around in the hall and stops Maleeka to ask her a question.  Maleeka is with Char as this happens and gets a little sassy with Miss. Saunders. She doesn’t like how she was talking to her, so she sent her back to class.

I recommend this book to everyone! This book is a good life lesson about how to love yourself for who you are and not what people say about you. It doesn’t matter what you look like because God made you that way for a reason.  If you don’t like yourself which  you should you should read this book and understand it as it is laid out for you.  It would not be a waste of time because no books are a waste. I think you should get this book as fast as you can because everyone needs a life lesson once in a while.

Book Review by Courtney B.