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. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.
While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare."*Įleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. A strong choice for summer reading and for sparking conversation in the classroom or at home.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. Like Sisters on the Homefront is a fast, gritty read about mistakes, second chances, and family. And slowly, the stories of her roots begin to change how Gayle sees her future. Gayle is stuck cleaning up after Great, the old family matriarch who stays upstairs in her bed.īut 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. 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.
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, José. T his 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.
Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant.
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