Gone Crazy in Alabama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062215871)

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

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN-10: 0062215876
ISBN-13: 9780062215871
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 173605 / Gone Crazy in Alabama


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015
Booklist 02/01/2015 pg. 38
School Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 145
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2015 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2015
Shelf Awareness 04/24/2015
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2015 pg. 471
BookPage 05/01/2015
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2015 pg. 89
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 80
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2015