Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S.
This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. A strong option for summer reading-take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.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. Includes an excerpt from: Gone crazy in Alabama. But the one thing that doesn't change during this turbulent year is the advice that Delphine receives from her mother, who reminds her not to grow up too fast. Mwila, a stern exchange teacher from Zambia. And her new sixth-grade teacher isn't the fun, stylish Miss Honeywell-it's Mr. Uncle Darnell comes home from Vietnam, but he's not the same.
That doesn't sit well with Big Ma, who doesn't like the way things are changing.
After spending the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern arrive home with a newfound streak of independence. The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, and has two adult daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, and a son-in-law, Adam. She is also the author of six distinguished novels for young adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist No Laughter Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book), and Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults) Blue Tights and Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers.
Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller.
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