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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. Woodson's sensitive and lyrical books reveal and give a voice to outsiders often invisible to mainstream America.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780590458818
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I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Twelve-year-old Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. Woodson's sensitive and lyrical books reveal and give a voice to outsiders often invisible to mainstream America.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780385320313
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If You Come Softly
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black, and Ellie, who is white, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. Woodson's sensitive and lyrical books reveal and give a voice to outsiders often invisible to mainstream America.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780399231124
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Lena
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father. Woodson's sensitive and lyrical books reveal and give a voice to outsiders often invisible to mainstream America.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780385323086
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Miracle's Boys
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. Woodson's sensitive and lyrical books reveal and give a voice to outsiders often invisible to mainstream America.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2006
- ISBN: 9780399231131