The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake is the book I choose for my older Multicultural selection. This story is about a young, African American girl name Maleeka. Maleeka felt everyone just saw her as a "skinny, poor, black" young woman. When Caleb finds something else in her, it gave her hope and something to want to go to school for. He would write her notes and letters, and even walk her to class. But once this younger boy started to make fun of her, she loses that. He first starts by telling her she is too black, when he is African American himself. He then finds out the her mom does not know about Caleb, and he takes it upon himself to tell her mom. This results in her losing her relationship. She felt like that is all she had, and now looks for something else. That something else she finds is a gang. She feels the gang gives her self protection and comfort. And then the gang sees how far they can push her.
This book just makes the reader for so sorry for the girl, and I just wanted to shout to her NOT to do some things. It goes on for awhile getting from bad, to worse. And it is so scary to think that these sort of things really do happen, especially knowing that they start from ignorant children just being rude and mean. I recommend this book definately at the junior high level, because of all of the drama that goes on at that age, and I feel like it was get them all back down to earth, and see the result of some of the things they do.
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