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Gaither Sisters Books

In order from One Crazy Summer to Gone Crazy in Alabama
One Crazy Summer
P.S. Be Eleven
Gone Crazy in Alabama
One Crazy Summer
P.S. Be Eleven
chapter • 240 Pages
One Crazy Summer
#1 in Series
Book #1

One Crazy Summer

Written and illustrated by Rita Williams-Garcia
8 - 12
Reading age
240
Page count
190
Words per page
Dec 27, 2011
Publication date
Paperback
$9.99
$9.58

Summary

In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. “This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare.” Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer. This moving, funny novel won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern’s story continues in P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. This novel was the first featured title for Marley D’s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of “great kids’ books with diverse characters,” called it “witty and original.” Brightly, in Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich’s article “Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality”

Primary Tags

prejudice and racismfamily problemsmother-daughter relationshipscivil rights movement

Gaither Sisters Series

Published from 2011 - 2016
3 books
chapter • 240 Pages
One Crazy Summer
Paperback
$9.99$9.58
chapter • 304 Pages
P.S. Be Eleven
#2 in Series
Paperback
$7.99$8.58
chapter • 320 Pages
Gone Crazy in Alabama
#3 in Series
Paperback
$7.99$7.59
Year#TitlePages
20111One Crazy Summer240
20152P.S. Be Eleven304
20163Gone Crazy in Alabama320

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