num_pages: 144
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 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 death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery."( The New York Times )
language: English
title: Last Summer with Maizon
titlecomplete: Last Summer with Maizon
genres: Kids, Cultural, Childrens, Teen, African American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 423
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
series: Maizon
publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books