Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. How can his mom do this to him- is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family? About the Author: Jacqueline Woodson (is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down.

He writes about his mom a lot-they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead.

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqueline Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say.

From the notebooks of melanin sun