Last Summer With Maizon

Type

Book

Authors

Jacqueline Woodson

ISBN 10

0698119290

ISBN 13

9780698119291

Tags

Death & Dying, Girls & Women, Friendship, School, Literature & Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, African-American

Description

Margaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margaret's father dies of a heart attack, and then Maizon is accepted at an expensive boarding school, far away from the city they call home. For the first time in her life, Margaret has to turn to someone who isn't Maizon, who doesn't know her heart and her dreams. . . . "Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story of nearly adolescent children, but a mature exploration of grown-up issues: death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery."(The New York Times) - from Amzon

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