The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequelto 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.

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. That doesn’t sit well with Big Ma, who doesn’t like the way things are changing.

Neither does Delphine. Pa has a new girlfriend. Uncle Darnell comes home from Vietnam, but he’s not the same. And her new sixth-grade teacher isn’t the fun, stylish Miss Honeywellit’s Mr. Mwila,a stern exchange teacher from Zambia.

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. To be eleven while she can.

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: January 27, 2015
  Pages: 304
  Language: English
  Type: Paperback
  EAN/UPC: 9780061938641
  Dimensions: 7.6 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches | 6.8 pounds
  BISAC Categories: Kids