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Rita Williams-Garcia
One Crazy Summer tells the story of three girls who go to Oakland, California, to meet their estranged mother and become involved in the civil rights movement in the late…
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In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive…
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Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking –Container.
And there’s Dominique, an angry basketball player who’s been benched for low grades.When Trina unknowingly offends Dominique, Dominique decides that it’s going down-after school, she’s going to jump Trina.
Troubled 14-year-old Gayle is sent down South to live with her uncle and aunt, where her life begins to change as she experiences the healing power of the family.
From National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia!
Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it’s made him valedictorian. But when he goes to a summer program at…
A National Book Award Finalist from a Newbery Honoree and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. After aspiring bluesman Clayton Byrd loses his beloved grandfather, he must figure out what…
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In a humorous and breakout book by Williams-Garcia, the Penderwicks meet the Black Panthers in 1968 Oakland, California.
In this exquisite sequel to the New York Times bestseller One Crazy Summer Na Newbery Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King AwardNthe Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn…
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…
-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…
Originally published in 1995 by Lodestar Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. –Title page verso.
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 beautiful, giftable box set! This box set includes…
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…
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Revisions to the original text have been made by the author. –Title page verso.
An acclaimed Coretta Scott King Honor author delivers a fast-paced, gritty narrative about the intertwined lives of three girls during one violent day in an urban high school. A National…
In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this is the story of an antebellum plantation–and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there.
1860…
Feeling most alive when he’s playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton’s devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to…
Rita Williams-Garcia,Chelsea Clinton
[I]nspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger.
