Last summer with Maizon

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)

Description

Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.

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Other Editions

• Last summer with MaizonDell1992-01-01
• Last summer with Maizon.Mammoth1992-01-01
• Last Summer With MaizonLibrary BindingBt Bound1999-10-01
• Last Summer with Maizon (Passports)PaperbackHarcourt Children's Books2000-09-01
• Last summer with MaizonPutnam2002-01-01
• Last summer with MaizonPuffin Books2002-01-01