Between Madison and Palmetto [Paperback]

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

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)Jacqueline Woodson(www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and she received the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for herNew York Timesbestselling memoirBROWN GIRL DREAMING, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book, Another Brooklyn, was a National Book Award finalist. Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books  includeTHE OTHER SIDE,EACH KINDNESS, Caldecott Honor BookCOMING ON HOME SOON; Newbery Honor winnersFEATHERS,SHOW WAY, andAFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER, andMIRACLE'S BOYS—which received theLA TimesBook Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award and was adapted into a lC¶