Skin I'm in, The (15 page)

Sharon G. Flake
won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her first novel,
The Skin I’m In,
and is a two-time Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book winner. Beloved by children and adults, critics and booksellers, librarians and teachers, she is the author of a middle-grade novel and six books for young adults that have sold more than half a million copies. The mother of a college-age daughter, Flake writes full-time from her home in Pittsburgh.

To learn more about Ms. Flake, please visit her Web site at
www.sharongflake.com
.