Her work has received numerous awards, such as the Coretta Scott King Honor award and the YWCA Racial Justice Award, and her books have been named to many prestigious lists, including Kirkus Review's Top Ten Books of the Year, Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, Top Ten Books for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library, Top Twenty Recommended Books to Read by the Texas Library Association, 100 Books Every Teenage Girl Should Read, and Booklist Editor's Choice, among others. Flake has penned nine novels, numerous short stories, plays, and a picture book entitled You Are Not a Cat. She has spoken to more than two hundred thousand young people, and hugged nearly as many. Her breakout novel, The Skin I'm In, established her as a must-read author among middle and high school students, parents, and educators.

Flake has an international reputation as a top author for children and young adults. And she don’t know nothing ’bout picking up her own mess, or telling her no-good friends to stop waking up the whole neighborhood at three and four in the morning with loud music, crap games, and fights.Sharon G. She’s seventeen, but she looks twenty-five. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. It was Shiketa Nixon, the girl who lives two buildings up from us. Begging for Change - Ebook written by Sharon Flake. Wasn’t no stranger who whacked her over the head, neither. The newscaster on the TV in the hospital waiting room said Momma was jumped in broad daylight right out front of our place.

Cry some more when I see how really bad off Momma is. I cry all the while I’m in the waiting room. ‘Cause if you let ’em loose, somebody gonna say you a punk, and you won’t never live that down. If you accidentally cut your hand off in wood shop, you better hold back them tears. She has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her daughter for many years.She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English. In school, there ain’t never a good reason to cry. Flake (born December 24, 1955) is an American writer of children and young adult literature. Mad at God and everyone else who shoulda looked out for her, but didn’t. No way would that girl wanna be me right now, sitting in the hospital hoping my mother don’t die. You probably get to go home for doing something stupid. On my way outta English class, one girl looks at me and says, “You lucky. “Raspberry Hill,” she says real slow, with a crack in her voice. They never call me over the intercom at school.īut I can tell by the way the secretary is saying my name over that thing-I’m in trouble.

Begging for change by sharon g flake