Sharon Flake
Website: https://www.sharongflake.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/flakesharon/?hl=en
Watch for: The Family I’m In; April 2025 pre-order
The Skin I’m In; 1998; 2018
Money Hungry; 2001
Begging For Change; 2003
Who Am I Without Him; 2004
Bang; 2005
The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street; 2007
You Don’t Even Know Me; 2010
Unstoppable Octobia May; 2014
Pinned; 2012
You Are Not A Cat! 2016
The Life I’m In; 2021
Once In A Blue Moon; 2023
You Make Me Sneeze; 2024
The Family I’m In; 2025
Filed under: Creators
About Edith Campbell
Edith Campbell is Librarian in the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University. She is a member of WeAreKidlit Collective, and Black Cotton Reviewers. Edith has served on selection committees for the YALSA Printz Award, ALSC Sibert Informational Text Award, ALAN Walden Book Award, the Walter Award, ALSC Legacy Award, and ALAN Nielsen Donelson Award. She is currently a member of ALA, BCALA, NCTE NCTE/ALAN, REFORMA, YALSA and ALSC. Edith has blogged to promote literacy and social justice in young adult literature at Cotton Quilt Edi since 2006. She is a mother, grandmother, gardener and quilter.
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I’ll never forget reading THE SKIN I’M IN with young women and discussing colorism for the first time. All respect to Ms. Flake for saying the quiet part out loud.