Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia

As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s been keeping the sisters apart. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. 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.ĭelphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles.

St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).

Williams-Garcia excels at conveying defining moments of American society from their point of view.

'The Gaither sisters are an irresistible trio. 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. Kendi's books.Įach 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. 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. 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. 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. Powerful and humorous, this companion to the award-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S.

But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years.

Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. 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.ĭelphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles.

Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia