From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun - Tapa dura

A Coretta Scott King Honor title finds Melanin Sun recording in a personal notebook his thoughts about his relationship with his single-parent mother, who reveals that she is gay and in love with a white woman. By the Newbery-winning author of After Tupac and D Foster.

Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include a Newbery Honor, two Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Although she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers and encouraging young people to write, spending time with her friends and her family, and sewing. Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.