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One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Illustrated by Sharee Miller ...

“I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland…”Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California.But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, ... Read more

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“I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland…”Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California.But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland,
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One Crazy Summer

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King ... Read more

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In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King
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One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Narrated by Sisi Aisha Johnson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min

ALA Best Fiction for Young AdultsALA Notable Children’s BookScott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionNewbery Honor BookCoretta Scott King Award (Author)In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita WilliamsGarcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book ... Read more

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ALA Best Fiction for Young AdultsALA Notable Children’s BookScott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionNewbery Honor BookCoretta Scott King Award (Author)In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita WilliamsGarcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book
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Gone Crazy in Alabama

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Illustrated by Frank Morrison ...

From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander.Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen—he can’t wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his ... Read more

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From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander.Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen—he can’t wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his
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A Sitting in St. James

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!7 starred reviews! "Monumental." —Booklist (starred review) * "A marathon masterpiece."—Kirkus (starred review) * "Necessary."—SLJ (starred review) * "Shocking and dramatic."—Shelf Awareness (starred review) * "Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered."—Book Page (starred review) * "Williams-Garcia’s storytelling is magnificent; her voice honest and ... Read more

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Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!7 starred reviews! "Monumental." —Booklist (starred review) * "A marathon masterpiece."—Kirkus (starred review) * "Necessary."—SLJ (starred review) * "Shocking and dramatic."—Shelf Awareness (starred review) * "Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered."—Book Page (starred review) * "Williams-Garcia’s storytelling is magnificent; her voice honest and
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Every Time a Rainbow Dies

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Dies is a moving, lyrical, and diverse love story—perfect for fans of One Crazy Summer who are ready for an older voice.Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him.He is up there on the day ... Read more

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From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Dies is a moving, lyrical, and diverse love story—perfect for fans of One Crazy Summer who are ready for an older voice.Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him.He is up there on the day
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Jumped

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narrative about choices and the impact that even the most seemingly insignificant ones can have. A National Book Award finalist.One day. One huge New York City high school. Three girls, headed toward one slow-motion collision.There’s Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who’s sure ... Read more

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Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narrative about choices and the impact that even the most seemingly insignificant ones can have. A National Book Award finalist.One day. One huge New York City high school. Three girls, headed toward one slow-motion collision.There’s Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who’s sure
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If The Creek Don't Rise

A Memoir

by Rita Williams ...

When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier ... Read more

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When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier
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Like Sisters on the Homefront

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

Unabridged

5 hours 23 min

Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. T****his novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author is about one girl’s discovery of her family history—and her own place within it.When fourteen-year-old Gayle gets in trouble with a boy—again—her mother doesn’t give her a choice: Gayle is getting sent away from ... Read more

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Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. T****his novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author is about one girl’s discovery of her family history—and her own place within it.When fourteen-year-old Gayle gets in trouble with a boy—again—her mother doesn’t give her a choice: Gayle is getting sent away from
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Love is Blind

Josie teaches Leo to See with His Senses

by Rita Williams Castillo ...

Series Book 1 - Josie Giraffe Series
In Love is Blind, Josie teaches Leo the Lion to See with His Senses by Rita Williams Castillo, a wise giraffe named Josie helps Leo, a blind lion, discover the world through his senses. While Leo can't see like the other animals, Josie teaches him to listen to the jungle's sounds, smell its flowers, feel the earth beneath his paws, and experience life in a whole new way. Through their friendship, ... Read more

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In Love is Blind, Josie teaches Leo the Lion to See with His Senses by Rita Williams Castillo, a wise giraffe named Josie helps Leo, a blind lion, discover the world through his senses. While Leo can't see like the other animals, Josie teaches him to listen to the jungle's sounds, smell its flowers, feel the earth beneath his paws, and experience life in a whole new way. Through their friendship,
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Gaither Sisters Trilogy Collection

One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama

by Rita Williams-Garcia ...

All three books in the Coretta Scott King Award-winning series by New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia are now available in one ebook collection!Each humorous, unforgettable story follows the Gaither 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 ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

All three books in the Coretta Scott King Award-winning series by New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia are now available in one ebook collection!Each humorous, unforgettable story follows the Gaither 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
... Read more

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