Sharon G. Flake explores one girl’s journey of self love in her young adult novel The Skin I’m In. Maleeka who has endured years of torment due to the midnight color of her skin is stuck between two worlds. She yearns to rise above the injustice of her own bad choices and to engage with the personal empowerment her new teacher Mrs. Saunders, a woman with scars of her own, introduces.

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