My son needed to select 2 books to read over the summer. He chose "The Skin I'm In" and he loved it. He wrote an awesome report about his reflection on the book. He stated that the book was something he enjoyed reading because he gave him a different outlook on his African American culture. I purchased an additional book to be placed in my classroom library. A great book and I'm elated that my son enjoyed reading this book. I definitely recommend this book to young people to read.

Moving story of a girl struggling to navigate the minefields of middle school and find a way to be comfortable in her own skin.

ideal for teens, pre-teens and adults who need a bit of perspective...all ages, all races, all sexes should read this book about self-awareness.

this story is about this girl who also was getting bulliyed around and who just want to be like everyone else she hates that her mom makes her clothes and she hates how the fite her big and there wobbly on her. so she goes and cuts her hair and curls it to try to make her self look better it did not make a diffrence from before she wore her friends hat for the rest of the day she starts handing around with all the wrong people she starts being rude and disrespectful so one day when she came to class she was late she started falling behind in school and the teacher got her suspended so when she got home her mom was mad at her

It's a girl named Melaka Madison and she is black and children pick on her and she need to stop and tell people to take her as she is but going on with the story she very, very scared to stand up for her self and what's right and she very afraid to express herself to her mama and also other people .A girl named Charlese started picking on her about her clothes n everything about Melaka and when she do that the whole school starts picking on her .Oh yeah Charlese is the most popular girl in the school then Melaka also wanna be popular so Melaka makes a deal with her saying she will do her homework only if she sticks up for her. That's when char's starts getting A's in her classes but basically at the end Melaka is forced by char's to burn the teacher desk and when she decide that she wasn't gone do that Chars did it and she said if she tell she was gone get beat up..!!!!