Status
Available
Call number
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Collections
Publication
Jump At The Sun (1900), 176 pages
Subjects
Awards
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2003)
Coretta Scott King Award (Winner — 1999)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2002)
Isinglass Teen Read Award (Nominee — 2007)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1999)
CCBC Choices (1998)
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Selection — 1999)
Young Adult Favorites Award (2000)
Project LIT Book Selection (Middle Grade — 2020)
OYAN Book Rave (2000)
Language
Original publication date
1998
Physical description
176 p.; 5.25 inches
ISBN
0786813075 / 9780786813070
UPC
807728463571