I just finished a wonderful book (most likely written for late elementary or middle school youth) by Kekla Magoon. She is an award winning writer, who has other books to her credit already, although she is probably still in her 20s. The book I read was "Camo Girl" - she has also written "The Rock and the River" for which she was nominated for the NAACP Image award. She won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talen award.
Kekla won't remember me, but I remember her when she, her brother and her parents were members of the church I joined in the late 1980s in Fort Wayne, IN. I recommend it to anyone but especially to those fighting bullying or who know special needs kids or kids who get picked on by the "in crowd."