Title: Skin

Author: Deborah Kelly

Reviewer: Rhonda Bruce

Audience:  Secondary

Fourteen-year-old Lexie has just won the regional competition for public speaking and is going to the State Finals. When a tiny freckle on her check turns out to be a rare form of melanoma, Lexie has surgery and is left with a large scar. As her confidence disappears, Lexie begins to avoid her friends and wants to drop out of the State Finals. But when she gets to know classmate Moira, better, Lexie grows in understanding that what is on the inside is more important than what is on the outside.