Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia's masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is just as fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant today as when it was first published. It is now being reissued with a beautiful, contemporary new cover
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 New York to her family down South, along with her baby, Jos .
In a small town in Georgia, there is nowhere to go but church, nothing to do but chores, and no friends except her goody-goody, big-boned, kneesock-wearing cousin, Cookie. Gayle is stuck cleaning up after Great, the old family matriarch who stays upstairs in her bed.
But the more she spends time with Cookie and Great, Gayle learns about her family's history and secrets, stretching all the way back through the preachers and ancestors of the past. And slowly, the stories of her roots begin to change how Gayle sees her future.
Rediscover this novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author, about one girl's discovery of her own African American family history--and her own place within it.
One Crazy Summer, a Newbery Honor Novel by Rita Williams-Garcia, was a Coretta Scott King Author Prize winner, a National Book Award finalist, a Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner, and a New York Times bestseller. P.S. I Love You and P.S. I Love You, are the two sequels to P.S Both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Children's Books, Be Eleven and Gone Mad in Alabama, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, her novel, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the NAACP Image Award for Youth/Teen Fiction. Rita is also the author of five additional notable young adult novels: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughing Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (both ALA Best Books for Young Adults); and Blue Tights (all Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books).
Rita Williams-Garcia has two grown daughters and resides in Jamaica, New York, with her husband. You may find out more about her at www.ritawg.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525674658 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525674659 |
| Title | Like Sisters on the Homefront |
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1995-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 165 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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