Sharon G. Flake

Sharon G. Flake (born December 25, 1955) is an American writer of children and young adult literature who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Flake's debut novel, The Skin I'm In, was published in 1998. Her work has won numerous awards, including the John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 1999 for new authors, and has garnered positive feedback from Booklist and School Library Journal. She has also won two Coretta Scott King Honor Awards. In ten years she wrote six novels or story collections published by Jump at the Sun.

Books The Skin I'm In (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 1998) Money Hungry (Jump at the Sun, 2001) Begging for Change (Jump at the Sun, 2003) – sequel to Money Hungry Who Am I Without Him?: Short stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives (Jump at the Sun, 2004) Bang! (Jump at the Sun, 2005) The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street (Jump at the Sun, 2007), illustrated by Colin Bootman You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys (Jump at the Sun, 2010) Pinned (Scholastic Press, 2012) Unstoppable Octobia May (Scholastic Press, 2014) You Are Not a Cat (Boyds Mills Press, 2016) The Life I'm In (Scholastic Press, 2021) The Family I'm In(2025)