New Releases by Jacqueline Woodson

Au premier regard, ils s’aiment. Lui, Jeremiah, le garçon noir de Brooklyn, fils unique d’un réalisateur et d’une romancière. Elle, Ellie, la juive du quartier huppé, petite dernière de la famille. Ils fréquentent le même lycée, et reconnaissent chacun leur solitude dans les yeux de l’autre. Les deux adolescents vont vivre leur premier amour, aux yeux de tous. Mais le bonheur est fragile, et les préjugés tenaces...

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." (Publishers Weekly)

Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good-bye to her grandmother and her best friend, Margaret. Blue Hill is beautiful, and challenging-but there are only five black students, and the other four are from wealthy families. Does Maizon belong at Blue Hill after all? * "Simply told and finely crafted." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

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)

A young girl describes her various relatives and the foods they bring to the annual family picnic.

At the Jenkins family reunion seven friends try to solve the mystery of a valuable old book.

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.