![]() ![]() Feni decided she will have nothing to do with her. Read 96 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. What kind of girl would let herself get into so much trouble? How can Feni live under the same roof as someone like that? Her worst fears are confirmed when Rebecca arrives: she is mean, bossy, and uneducated. In The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson, Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. But can they keep their promise to be best friends forever? ![]() The girls can’t go back to last summer, before everything changed. The book is written in the perspective of a young boy, who, along with his older sister, is abandoned by their mother and taken to their Aunt Gracie's house. ![]() Then Maizon is offered a scholarship to a boarding school, where, she’s afraid, she might be the only black student. Our Gracie Aunt does an excellent job of presenting a realistic problem in a manner in which children can relate. But the summer they are eleven, Margaret’s father dies. They live on the same block on Madison Street in Brooklyn, and they’re always together. ![]() Maizon and Margaret know how lucky they are. In one of her recent picture books, Our Gracie Aunt ( 2002 ), siblings. Jacqueline Woodson Synopses: Last Summer with Maizon is a standalone title by Jacqueline Woodson. Woodson's works are consistent in that they focus on realistic and oftentimes. If You Like Jacqueline Woodson Books, You’ll Love… Note: No Such Thing as the Real World also has stories by An Na, M.T. ![]()
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