From the notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jacqueline Woodson First published 1995

About this book

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?

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • african american teenage boys
  • african american teenage fiction
  • brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • homosexuality, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • lambda literary awards
  • lambda literary award winner
  • lesbian mothers
  • lesbians
  • lgbtq young adult
  • mothers and sons
  • mothers and sons, fiction
  • mother-son relationship
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • realistic fiction