Sharon G. Flake

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1999
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Raspberry Hill

1 - Money Hungry (Jun-2001)
2 - Begging for Change (Jun-2003)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Skin I'm In

    When Miss Saunders asks, "What's my face say?" don't nobody say nothing. "Don't get all closed-mouth, now," she says. "I hear you whispering in the hall. Laughing at me." She walks the aisles again. She stops by me and sits on my desk. "Faces say ...

  • Money Hungry

    Raspberry Hill - 1

    The mesmerizing story of one girl's struggle to break her family's cycle of poverty is reissued with an arresting new cover.Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is starved for money. She will do just about anything legal to get her hands on the almighty ...

  • Begging for Change

    Raspberry Hill - 2

    The story of one young girl's struggle for money and survival, and the lengths she will go to get both, now reissued with an arresting new cover.Is there greed in Raspberry Hill's genes? In this sequel to Coretta Scott King Honor Book Money Hungry, o...

  • Who Am I Without Him?

    Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real.Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top Ten Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in twelve short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relation...

  • The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street

    “Queen is smart. Queen is pretty. But nobody likes her except her kitty.” Queen’s house -- the biggest one on 33rd Street--looks just like a castle, and in her bedroom, she has dozens of beautiful dresses and crowns.  Queen thinks she’s a ...

  • Bang!

    Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go through in a lifetime. His family is still reeling from the tragic shooting death of his little brother, Jason, each person coping with grief in his or her own way. Mann's m...

  • You Don't Even Know Me

    I sit in your class I play by the rules I'm young I'm fly I'm black. So of course I think I'm cool . . . In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males. There'...

  • Pinned

    Autumn and Adonis have nothing in common and everything in common. Autumn is outgoing and has lots of friends. Adonis is shy and not so eager to connect with people. But even with their differences, the two have one thing in common ? they’re each d...

  • Unstoppable Octobia May

    Bestselling and award-winning author, Sharon G. Flake, delivers a mystery set in the 1950s that eerily blends history, race, culture, and family. Octobia May is girl filled with questions. Her heart condition makes her special - and, some folks wo...



  • You Are Not a Cat!

    For fans of Mo Willem's Elephant and Piggie and Pigeon series, this clever and hilarious story stars Cat, who starts out perfectly content and relaxed, and Duck, who infuriates him by meowing like a cat instead of quacking like Cat thinks he should. ...

  • The Life I'm In

    The powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I'm In, Sharon Flake's bestselling modern classic, presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking.My feet are heavy as stones when I walk up...

  • Once in a Blue Moon

    A beautiful and uplifting novel in verse about family, friendship, journeys that take us far from home and back again, renewed and more courageous from the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winner of The Skin I'm In!James Henry used to be brave. He...

  • You Make Me Sneeze!

    Perfect for fans of Mo Willems and Jon Klassen, award-winning author Sharon G. Flake’s story about a very serious cat and a very silly duck will inspire giggles with every reading.Best friends Duck and Cat have a problem -- Cat makes Duck sneeze! ...

  • The Family I'm In

    The bestselling and award-winning author of The Skin I'm In and The Life I'm In returns with a novel that explores the complex relationships between Black boys and their fathers, and what it truly means to be a man. Sharon Flake's groundbreaking nove...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sharon G. Flake has published 14 books.

The next book by Sharon G. Flake, The Family I'm In, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In, was published in March 1999.

Yes. Sharon G. Flake has 1 series.
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