description: Improve your English, and reading, skills with unabridged contemporary literature. Maleeka Madison is a child with very low self-esteem due to the fact that she is darker skinned than most other black girls. In her new teacher, Miss Saunders, she encounters someone who, she feels, is worse off than she is, as Miss Saunders' skin is blotched with a rare skin condition. The teacher withstands the snickers a nd shouts from the students but can Maleeka accept friendship and accept the skin she's in?
language: English
title: The Skin I'm In
titlecomplete: The Skin I'm In
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Teen, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, African American
ratings_count: 16198
places: The United States of America
series: The Skin I'm In
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: John Steptoe New Talent Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High
publisher: Oxford University Press España, S.A.