About what happened to his mom how he delt with it how he fell in love with a girl, how he hated white people, and how he came to relize that people who like people of the same gender is ok. The book melanin is a about aboy that wrote everything he experienced in his life.

Then he finds out his mother like women and not men and he stars hating his own mother couse she doesent like men. The winner of the Coretta Scott King award, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun is a very readable book that treats heavy issues in a gentle way.Melanin sun by Jacqueline Woodson is about a boy who has all sorts of problems with other people because he’s of a different color. Shortly before school started he finally began to accept his mother's new lifestyle by accompanying her to the beach with her lover. Over the course of summer, Melanin Sun had to confront many issues he had about racism, sexuality, and tolerance. However Melanin Sun's other friend accepted the situation, so things were not as bad as he originally thought. When his friends found out, one of them did indeed make fun of his mother and it became clear that they would not be friends anymore. Angry and confused about sex and love and racial issues, he tried to punish his mother by shutting her out of his life and refusing to even talk to Kristin. Through diary exerpts and straightforward narrative, Melanin Sun bears his soul to the reader with painful clarity.

What if his friends found out? He'd be the laughingstock of his block. His mother! His very own mother was a dyke! Did this mean Melanin Sun would grow up gay? Kissing Angie from down the street gave him a rush of butterflies in his stomach, but still. Melanin Sun was happy with his life and family situation.until his mom discovered the pretty white lawyer named Kristin. Usually after just two or three dates with a man she'd lose interest. His father walked off before he was born. For as long as thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun can remember, it's been just him and his mom. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Small yellowed price sticker discoloration at front end paper otherwise ook shows binding square and secure text clean. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use.

From the notebooks of melanin sun