She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. "Publishers Weekly"Ībout the Author Jacqueline Woodson (is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. Offering no easy answers, Woodson teaches the reader that love can lead to acceptance of all manner of differences. Woodson s perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. ?Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality. Offering no easy answers, Woodson teaches the reader that love can lead to acceptance of all manner of differences." - "Publishers Weekly" "Woodson's perceptively wrought novel imaginatively tackles such weighty issues as racism and sexuality.
How can his mom do this to him- is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family? And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down.
He writes about his mom a lot-they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family.
But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. Melanin Sun's world is turned upside-down when his mom reveals that she is gay.īook Synopsis A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqueline Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. About the Book Woodson's powerful Coretta Scott King Honor Book is back in a brand-new edition.
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