Because of Madeline
By: by Mary Stolz
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Private schools; Juvenile fiction; Social influence; Teenage girls
Description: A nineteen-year-old girl reflects on the winter she was fourteen, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman began to attend her select private school, and on the effect knowing Madeline had on her idealistic older brother, her own priggishness and conformity, and others at the school.