Mariah Keeps Cool

Mariah #2

by Mildred Pitts Walter

Twelve-year-old Mariah envisions a great summer competing as a diver and planning a surprise party for her sister Lynn but half-sister Denise proves a cloud in Mariah's sunny summer.

Paperback

First published May 1, 1990

About the author

Delegate to the 2nd World Black and African Festival of the Arts & Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977. Graduate of Southern University with an MA in education from Antioch College. She lives in Denver, Colorado, and travels widely as an educational consultant.

Reviews

[CH - Marvin Childress · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mariah keeps cool, is about 11 year old Mariah, a cool African-American girl from a two-parent household. Mariah is excited because she and her four friends, AKA, the Friendly Five have started a swim team in preparation for an upcoming competition...All-City! Mariah is faced with some uncomfortable days when Denise, her father's daughter from a previous relationship comes to live with the family...and she's 16! Denise brings everything YOU would expect a 16 year old, who's coming to live with her estranged father and HIS wife and HIS other children to the table...literally. This book is for 5th - 8th grade, and it is the sequel to MARIAH LOVES ROCK, by Mildred Pitts Walter.

I think this is a pleasant surprise to what I would expect to see. It has an African-American two-parent home, but it is coupled with a step-child, creating the blended family. The fact that Mariah and her friends swim competitively is refreshing as well, i.e. that is not a typical Black American story.

[Mirranda]

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[Jenielle Haynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about a young girl named Lyn. Lyn is the primary character who is going through the day thinking that everyone forgot about her birthday. Maryah is the secondary character who is her best friend. During her birthday she goes and see other friends while they were swimming and she got dismissed from the swim meet. After returning home her mother asked her if she wanted to come out with her for her birthday. After returning home her family and the friendly five are there waiting for her yelling “happy birthday

[Carly Shaffer · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was for school and so we had to read it like 3 times a week wich got on my nerves.