“Gone Crazy in Alabama” by Rita Williams-Garcia

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“Gone Crazy in Alabama”

by Rita Williams-Garcia

About the Author:

"Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Children’s Books. Her novel Clayton Byrd Goes Underground was a National Book Award finalist and winner of the NAACP Image Award for Youth/Teen Literature. Rita is also the author of five other distinguished novels for young adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book), Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults); and Blue Tights. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters."

You can visit her online at www.ritawg.com.

Book Summary:

"The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible. Powerful and humorous, this companion to the award-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time."

-Amazon.com

Gone Crazy in Alabama by: Rita Williams-Garcia

Reviews:

A must-have conclusion to this beloved middle grade series. (School Library Journal (starred review)) “it’s reward enough just to spend more time with this feisty, close-knit family, whose loyalty to and love for each other trump everything else. (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) Praise for P.S. BE ELEVEN: “Funny, wise, poignant, and thought-provoking, this will leave readers wanting more about Delphine and her sisters.” (Horn Book (starred review))

Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Crazy-Alabama-Rita-Williams-Garcia/dp/0062215892/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=%E2%80%9CGone+Crazy+in+Alabama%E2%80%9D+by+Rita+Williams-Garcia&qid=1606063426&sr=8-1

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