The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, and has two adult daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, and a son-in-law, Adam. She is also the author of six 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), and Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults) Blue Tights and Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.

Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers. This extraordinary novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You.Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The one person she confides in is her mother, Cecile.Through letters, Delphine pours her heart out and receives some constant advice: to be eleven while she can. Besides her sisters, Delphine's got plenty of other things to worry about-like starting sixth grade, being the tallest girl in her class, and dreading the upcoming school dance. That's much harder now that Vonetta and Fern refuse to be bossed around. But Big Ma still expects Delphine to keep her sisters in line.

Uncle Darnell returns from Vietnam a different man. The sisters aren't the only ones who have changed. This extraordinary novel earned five starred reviews, with Publishers Weekly calling it 'historical fiction that's as full of heart as it is of heartbreak' and The Horn Book considering it 'funny, wise, poignant, and thought-provoking.' After spending the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern arrive home with a newfound streak of independence.

In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home.

P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia