SUMMARY The Melting Pot is a children's book that shows how children should appreciate and respect other children's skin tone. It also talks about the backgrounds of the children. Children should start to develop a mutual understanding of each other. In the society we live in, we need to teach each other how to love ourselves so we can love others. The character Sade talks about her friends. Sade's friends come from different ethnic backgrounds. They play in a band called 'THE MELTING POT' at Louis Armstrong School (I.S.227), Queens, New York. The children have backgrounds ranging from African American to Asian American. \teach our children that colors are wonderful. They are the greatest gift from mother earth.

Ceres is a young Afro-American woman growing up during the time period when Rap had become the Voice of the Afro-American Community and Crack Was the parents to many of the youth within the walls of N.Y.C. faced with these facts; that she is a strong female, a Black person; whom is not expected to succeed with her life because of these circumstances. She begins to quickly learn the necessary Life lessons she will need to survive in her world and Ceres decides to be the Woman she wants to be not the Woman she is told to be.

SUMMARY The Melting Pot is a children's book that shows how children should appreciate and respect other children's skin tone. It also talks about the backgrounds of the children. Children should start to develop a mutual understanding of each other. In the society we live in, we need to teach each other how to love ourselves so we can love others. The character Sade talks about her friends. Sade's friends come from different ethnic backgrounds. They play in a band called 'THE MELTING POT' at Louis Armstrong School (I.S.227), Queens, New York. The children have backgrounds ranging from African American to Asian American. \teach our children that colors are wonderful. They are the greatest gift from mother earth.

Ceres is a young Afro-American woman growing up during the time period when Rap had become the Voice of the Afro-American Community and Crack Was the parents to many of the youth within the walls of N.Y.C. faced with these facts; that she is a strong female, a Black person; whom is not expected to succeed with her life because of these circumstances. She begins to quickly learn the necessary Life lessons she will need to survive in her world and Ceres decides to be the Woman she wants to be not the Woman she is told to be.