Williams-Garcia, Rita, author.
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015];©2015
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• Companion to One crazy summer and P.S. Be eleven.
• It takes a licking — Things fell apart — On the road — Everything is everything — Moon house — JimmyTrotter, No space in between — Straight from Sophie — Far from Net-Net and Unc — Chicken run — Ruination of things — Great Miss Trotter — Sophie’s on — That’s entertainment — Part-time Indian — How I met my sister — Little Miss Ethel Waters — Every sprig — Chickweed — Going to town — Aunt Jemima, who? — Bambi’s mother — Short for Onchetty — Like a bird in the sky — Klan — Keeping up with the Kennedys — The spider has landed — Got milk? — Pure T spite — Gone — Blue sky — The call — Taranada — Sister — Three dog night — You are the hill — Mississippi — Gone crazy in Alabama — Sad irons — Sign of love — Kind of truth — Act of God — Maypop and Dandelion — Southern good-bye — Keeps on ticking.
• 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 — From publisher’s website.
• Ages 8-12.
• Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2016

Subjects:

• African American women — Juvenile fiction.
• Mothers — Juvenile fiction.
• Sisters — Juvenile fiction.
• Alabama — History — 20th century — Juvenile fiction.
• African American women — Fiction.
• Mothers — Fiction.
• Sisters — Fiction.
• Family life — Alabama — Fiction.
• Alabama — History — 20th century — Fiction.

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