Last Summer With Maizon

Overview

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. Forthe 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 explorationof grown-up issues: death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery." (The New York Times)

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Bio of Jacqueline Woodson

Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include a Newbery Honor, two Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Although she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers and encouraging young people to write, spending time with her friends and her family, and sewing. Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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Imprint

Penguin

Filesize

455.66 KB

Number of Pages

128

eBook ISBN

9781101125212