When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old-and her baby, José-down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch-and her stories of the past begin to change how Gayle sees her future. Williams-Garcia has surpassed herself..She has set these fictional characters. firmly in the real world while still allowing them to rise from the pages and into readers' hearts and imaginations. -The Horn Book, starred review
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Like Sisters on the Homefront
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old-and her baby, José-down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch-and her stories of the past begin to change how Gayle sees her future. Williams-Garcia has surpassed herself..She has set these fictional characters. firmly in the real world while still allowing them to rise from the pages and into readers' hearts and imaginations. -The Horn Book, starred review
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old-and her baby, José-down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch-and her stories of the past begin to change how Gayle sees her future. Williams-Garcia has surpassed herself..She has set these fictional characters. firmly in the real world while still allowing them to rise from the pages and into readers' hearts and imaginations. -The Horn Book, starred review
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 ritawg.com.
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