Because of Madeline
By Mary Stolz
1957
First Published
3.94
Average Rating
201
Number of Pages
A nineteen-year-old girl reflects on the winter she was fourteen, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman began to attend her select private school, and on the effect knowing Madeline had on her idealistic older brother, her own priggishness and conformity, and others at the school.
Avg Rating
3.94
Number of Ratings
16
5 STARS
31%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Mary Stolz
Author · 30 books
Mary Stolz was a noted author for children and adolescents whose novels earned critical praise for the seriousness with which they took the problems of young people. Two of her books ''Belling the Tiger'' (1961) and ''The Noonday Friends'' (1965), were named Newbery Honor books by the ALA but it was her novels for young adults that combined romance with realistic situations that won devotion from her fans. Young men often created more problems and did not always provide happy ever after endings. Her heroines had to cope with complex situations and learn how to take action whether it was working as nurses (The Organdy Cupcakes), living in a housing project (Ready or Not), or escaping from being a social misfit by working for the summer as a waitress (The Sea Gulls Woke Me).
