Gone Crazy in Alabama
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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. 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 this book. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Kendi's books. Each humorous, unforgettable story in this trilogy follows the sisters as they grow up during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent American history, the 1960s. Read the adventures of eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, as they visit their kin all over the rapidly changing nation—and as they discover that the bonds of family, and their own strength, run deeper than they ever knew possible. “The Gaither sisters are an irresistible trio. Williams-Garcia excels at conveying defining moments of American society from their point of view.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Coretta Scott King Award winner * ALA Notable Book * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * Washington Post Best Books of the Year * The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Book * Three starred reviews * CCBC Choice * New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing * Amazon Best Book of the Year
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3 primary booksGaither Sisters is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Rita Williams-Garcia.
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this series was so good and I'm genuinely going to miss it. I literally loved the characters so much (old & new), and I'm just so sad because I now have to say goodbye to this series. I can always reread it, yeah, but it's something about reading a book for the first time and falling in love with it. And that's how it was for me in this book. I had read the first two like a year ago, and then reread them so I could basically be caught up. But this was my favorite book out of the series. I love this series so much and I'm gonna miss it..a lot
I love the Gaither sisters <3 It was great to check back in with them, and I love how this trilogy depicts the civil rights movement in 3 different geographic locations. I listened to this on audiobook and I did love the narrator's voice, but it made it a little harder to follow all the family tree stuff that was happening? Still: the same mix of funny, touching, and inspiring as the previous 2 volumes. And it's great to see real, authentic character growth from all 3 sisters.
