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Like Sisters on the Homefront

Like Sisters on the Homefront - Paperback

by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rita Williams-GarciaAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2019-12-30Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Quill Tree BooksISBN-13:9780062823922ISBN-10:62823922UPC:9780062823922Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Multigenerational, Self-Esteem & Self-RelianceSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCS6ZJ84N3

Rita Williams-Garcia's masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. This novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author is about one girl's discovery of her family history--and her own place within it.

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.

Like Sisters on the Homefront is a fast, gritty read about mistakes, second chances, and family. A strong choice for summer reading and for sparking conversation in the classroom or at home.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Quill Tree BooksISBN-13:9780062823922ISBN-10:62823922UPC:9780062823922Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Multigenerational, Self-Esteem & Self-RelianceSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCS6ZJ84N3
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Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery 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 O'Dell 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 Children's Books. Her novel Clayton Byrd Goes Underground was a National Book Award finalist and winner of the NAACP Image Award for Youth/Teen Literature. Rita is also the author of five other 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), Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults); and Blue Tights. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters. You can visit her online at www.ritawg.com.

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

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