Between Madison and Palmetto

by Jacqueline Woodson

Book Overview

Margaret and Maizon are back together on Madison Street, but their friendship is different now. Margaret needs more time alone, and it's not just the two of them any more-their new neighbor and classmate, Caroline, has become part of their lives. But that seems minor next to what is about to happen to Maizon. . . .

"Woodson's candid assessments of relations between blacks and whites are as searching as ever, and her characters just as commanding."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698119584
• ISBN13: 9780698119581
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The importance of friends ?

What is the way to keep a good relationship with a childhood friend? It is sometimes difficult and complicated because of changing of environment or us. Jacqueline Woodson, the author who awarded the Coretta Scott King, describes the importance of friends, family and the growth of teenagers. Whwn Margaret's best friend Maizon returns from boarding school and joins her eighth grade, they try to resume their friendship.However Maizon has been spent more time with a new friend Caroline and Margaret has a kind of jealousy. What's worst, she faces some personal problems. Though it is normal thing, she cares her weight seriously and her father suddenly appears since he left in her infancy. Woodson always shows the realistic and candid assessment of relationship between white and black and what problems teens have in this book. What's more, she finally tells us the importans of friends. I really like this happy ending of this storly!! This book is written in simple, but many adjective which describe feelings and scene are used. If I could modify this story, I would like to make brighter this story. Because this is a kind of serious story which characters always have nagative and complicated problem. By the way, I recommend this book for school chidren and teens and would like them to consider the importance of friends.

Ms. Woodson is a master youth writer!!!

This book was one I purchased for my book-loving niece and read to be sure it was age appropriate. Let me just say it is and she loved it - while I absolutely adored it. In the third book of a wonderfully written trilogy, Jacqueline Woodson revisits the friendship of Maizon and Margaret. Here we see the girls developing into teenagers and exploring the new boundaries of their friendship after major changes in the family of Margaret and Maizon's less than triumphant return from a sojourn in a private, predominantly white boarding school. The arrival of a new girl on their block also inserts challenges in their evolving friendship. Ms. Woodson has done it again. I was a little sad that this was my final journey with Maizon and Margaret. What a wonderful cast of characters and dialogue Ms. Woodson crafted. I'd highly recommend all of the books in the trilogy.