From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
by Jacqueline Woodson
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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 lotu 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 himuis this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
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African Americans, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Lesbians, Mothers and sons, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Lesbian mothers, Mother-son relationship, LGBTQ young adult, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Children's fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, African americans, fiction, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, African American teenage boys, African American Teenage fiction, Realistic fictionShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
2010, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
July 8, 2010, Puffin, Penguin Young Readers Group
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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
2010, Penguin USA, Inc.
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