![]() ![]() Now on the brink of turning 14, Melanin Sun is becoming aware of one of the most important things: Himself. Not many white people have ever come into the neighborhood and very rarely do the inhabitants step out of their community. Mel, as he is called, has grown up his entire life with only his mother within his small Brooklyn neighborhood, which is predominantly African American. Melanin Sun is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Melanin Sun who faces various challenges in his thirteenth year. ![]() While classified as YA lit due to its young teenage narrator, Melanin Sun can really be for all audiences no matter what age or race. ![]() Addressing some of the most important issues faced by the African American community, really by all minority communities, Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson is one of the most rarest and yet realest novels to be written. ![]()
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