From the notebooks of Melanin Sun

By Jacqueline Woodson

Subjects: Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, Mother-son relationship, African Americans, African American Teenage fiction, African americans, fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 12, Reading Level-Grade 9, Lambda Literary Awards, LGBTQ young adult, Mothers and sons, African American teenage boys, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Lesbian mothers, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, Lesbians, Realistic fiction

Description: 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?