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Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters who are about to learn what its like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetimeDelphine Vonetta and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother Ma Charles Across the way lives Ma Charless half sister Miss Trotter The two half sisters havent spoken in years As Delphine hears about her family history she uncovers the surprising truth thats 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 PS 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.
About the Author
Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her book, P.S. Be Eleven, won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014. In 2016 her book, Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Jeffrey Beall (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
