Last Summer with Maizon (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Last Summer with Maizon Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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 )

Shelfari edited the contributors of Last Summer with Maizon Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jacqueline Woodson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Last Summer with Maizon Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Margaret dangled her legs over the edge of the fire escape and flipped to a clean page in her diary.