The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times
bestselling 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 Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter.
The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. As Delphine hears about
her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s 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-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time
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In this poetic memoir,
Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor,
tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.
Margarita
is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's
tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems
like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los
Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she
can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words
and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the
children at school are not.
Then a revolution breaks out in
Cuba. Margarita fears for her far-away family. When the hostility
between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion,
Margarita's worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two
countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to
visit her beautiful island again?
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Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In
1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in
World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her
Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war.
Harry
Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a
remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey--from the
fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in
England...
And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Mo
Jackson is a little boy with a big passion for sports. He may not be
the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest player, but he won't let that
stop him from playing!Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins,
his football team. His classmates don’t mind, but the kids on their
rival team tease him for being a "butterfingers" who's too tiny to catch
the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan to turn Mo's little size into a big
win for the Robins!
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