- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
When John-John calls Maleeka “midnight” as an insult for her dark skin, Maleeka recalls a poem that describes how beautiful midnight is. This illustrates how much Maleeka has grown over the course of the book: early on in the novel, Maleeka would simply accept the insults her classmates hurled at her, and their words would often make her feel insecure about herself. Now, Maleeka no longer takes the bullying at face value. Instead, she has the ability to view the word in a way that boosts her self-esteem rather than detracting from it. In fact, it gives her so much…