Maggie 2: The Resettling

Maggie #2

by Joan Lingard

As a solution to a family relocation problem, Maggie McKinley persuades her father to go into business for himself and is then torn between helping him with the business and the man she loves.

Genres: Young Adult

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the Old Town, but grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was 18. She attended Strandtown Primary and then got a scholarship into Bloomfied Collegiate. She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and now lives in Edinburgh with her Canadian husband.

Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since.

Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963. Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970.

Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for Across the Barricades. Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children's Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire Children's Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. In 1998, her book Tom and the Tree House won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award. Her most recent novel, What to Do About Holly was released in August 2009.

Lingard was awarded an MBE in 1998 for services to children's literature.

Reviews

[Julie]

The second of four in the Maggie series of books by Joan Lingard. In this one Maggie is under pressure from all the demands her family make of her and struggles to juggle her schoolwork, her romance with James and the new family business. Is Maggie brave enough to finally stand up for what she wants? Enjoyable enough story though fairly tame by todays standards. It does stand the test of time well though having been written in the mid seventies.