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Maizon at Blue Hill

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By Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher Yearling
Maizon at Blue Hill
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Maizon Singh takes the biggest step of her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and leaves her grandma and her best friend, Margaret, behind on Madison Street. There are only five black seventh grader among them.Blue Hill is beautiful and Maizon has excellent teachers, small classes, and a friendly roommate. Yet something is missing. What is it that makes white people strange to her, that makes other black students threatening and safe at the same time? We have to stick together, Maizon, one black girl says. This school isnt about usits about them.Maizons not sure she belongs at Blue Hill after all. She worries about letting Grandma down. What if she doesnt succeed here? Can she go back to her old life on Madison Street?

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25862 words25,862 words
144 pages144 pages
Lexile 700LLexile 700L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 1993Published 1993

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0440408997

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