cover image From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jacqueline Woodson. Scholastic Paperbacks, $5.99 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-590-45881-8

When his mother explains that she is gay and in love with a white woman, an African American teenager must come to terms. In a starred review, PW found the novel ""perceptively wrought... [Woodson] shatters stereotypes even as she evokes the tenderness of a mother/son relationship."" Ages 12-up. (Nov.)