The Coretta Scott King AwardwinningGone Crazy in Alabamaby Newbery Honor andNew York Timesbestselling 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 Charless half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters havent spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth thats 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-winningOne Crazy SummerandP.S. Be Elevenwill 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’sThe Watsons Go to Birminghamand Jacqueline WoodsonsBrown Girl Dreamingwill find much to love inthis book.Rita Williams-Garcia’s books aboutDelphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds’s andIbram 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 nationand as they discover that the bonds of family, and their own strength, run deeper than they ever knew possible.

Rita Williams-Garcia‘sNewbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Childrens Books. She is also the author of the NAACP Image Awardwinning and National Book Award finalist Clayton Byrd Goes Underground; A Sitting in St. James, a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award winner and Los Angeles Times Book Award winner; Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Blue Tights; and four ALA Best Books for Young Adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here; Every Time a Rainbow Dies, a Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Book; and Fast Talk on a Slow Track. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters. You can visit her online at ritawg.com.

• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Publish Date: September 06, 2016
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780062215895
• Dimensions: 7.6 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches | .72 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Kids