The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent winner,
now reissued with a striking new cover and a foreword by New York
Times best-selling author Jason Reynolds.
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her
class. If they’re not getting at her about her homemade clothes or
her good grades, it’s about her dark, black skin. When a new
teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts
at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her
too. But the new teacher’s attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss
Saunders loves the skin she’s in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?
