TY - BOOK AU - Flake,Sharon TI - The skin I'm in SN - 9780439172141 (pbk) U1 - 818 PY - 1998/// CY - New York : PB - Scholastic, KW - African Americans -- Fiction. KW - Self-esteem -- Fiction. KW - Teachers -- Fiction N2 - 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 ER -