Introvert Melanin Sun writes in notebooks because he isn't very good at talking about how he feels. He's really close to his mom, but when she tells him she's gay and wants to date a white women, he can hardly forgive her let alone accept the other woman.
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
By Jacqueline Woodson
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 9 - 12 | Grades 10 - 9 | Z | 4 | 23267 |
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 lot? 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 him?is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN-13: 9780142416419
ISBN-10: 014241641X
Published on 7/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
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