And Maggie Makes 3

by Joan Lowery Nixon

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Maggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440401275
• ISBN13: 9780440401278
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Not too fluffy, not too grim

This is book two of Ms. Nixon's books about a girl named Margaret Ledoux. The first is MAGGIE, TOO and the third is MAGGIE FOREVERMORE. I checked all three books out of my local library yesterday and read them today. I'm hoping that Ms. Nixon wrote more books about Maggie because I like her.Maggie is 12, going on 13. Her beautiful mother died when she was two. Her movie director father has sent her to many boarding schools over the years because Maggie keeps getting into trouble. In the first book, Maggie's father married a beautiful young woman only 8 years older than Maggie. Kiki didn't think she could be a mother to Maggie, so Maggie was sent off to spend the summer with her mother's mother, Margaret Landry. This book opens with young Maggie still living with Grandma in Houston, Texas. Her father and stepmother are in Europe. School is starting and it's Maggie's first time in a public school. She meets her friend, Lisa, and her sort-of enemy, Jerico, on the first day. (Jerico thought he was one tough guy, but when he picks on Maggie, he soon finds out that she's no wimp.)Maggie joins the Drama Club and finds that she enjoys it. Her teacher was her mother's teacher, too, but Maggie doesn't tell Mrs. Finch that -- not even when Maggie and Lisa are trying out for the same part in the same play Maggie's mother was in when she was in school. Maggie doesn't know if she wants to get the part or not. Lisa is the first friend she's ever had. Oh, well, there's also the Junior High School Musical Review if Lisa wins.If Maggie gets a part in either one, will her father come to see her peform? Maggie wants that so much she can taste it. On the other hand, Jerico has promised her he's going to get back at her -- sometime -- and it's going to be good. What has Jerico got in mind? Should Maggie worry?By the way in the first chapter we learn that Maggie spent sixth grade at Miss Haversham's School for Girls. I think the author is having a little fun there because there's a famous character with that name in a book called GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Miss Haversham's fiance left her at the altar, which means he never showed up at their wedding. She got the news while she was getting into her wedding dress. By the time we meet her in the book, it's years and years later, but Miss Haversham is still wearing her wedding dress. She has only one shoe on because she hadn't put the other one on when she got the bad news. The stocking on the foot without a shoe is really ragged, but she still wears it. I'm not sure she ever took a bath after she heard. Miss Haversham went crazy and keeps her house the way it was then. The wedding feast is still on the table. That was a spooky scene in the movie. I think there were cobwebs and mice or rats all over what was left of the food.

It wasn't the greatest

And Maggie makes three is a book about a girl who joins a drama club and Maggie gets a part along with those feelings of jealousness of her best friend getting a different part in a play, and being confused of her dad being far away and missing her big part, but coming for the small parts. I didn't like this book that much, because the author focused too much on little aspects.