The Skin I’m in is about a girl named Maleeka that is a little darker than the other kids. Since she is darker, the other kids bully her and she believe them and she feels bad. Her family is poor and she wears weird clothes so a girl brought a bag of clothes for her. The books setting is mostly at school. One day she was in the hall and this girl walked ti her and said “Why were you locking lips with my boyfriend,” and the girl didn’t back down and they got in a fight. Right now in the book she has to work in the office so she won’t fight again. The setting is different from Fort Wayne because I think that they are in Africa.
The main character is Maleeka and she is darker than others and they bully her for that. She is a scared, shy girl. She can be smart but she never focuses on school and is thinking about home. The main problem is that she gets bullied a lot and thinks about that too much. Mrs. Saunderson makes her fell better that is her favorite person at school.