age ~37
from Litchfield, NH
Author
Rita Williams
ISBN #
0151011540
Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and an...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
133
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0688162479
EAN Code
9780688162474
ISBN #
19
Tap dancing on sidewalks, especially in the city's French Quarter, is a New Orleans tradition as familiar to some as Jazz, Creole and Cajun food and Mardi Gras. For generations, Black youngsters have danced for tourists on the streets of New Orleans some because they enjoy it, but many others to ear...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
32
Publisher
Marimba Books
ISBN #
1603490302
EAN Code
9781603490306
ISBN #
18
Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams...
Author
Jon Scieszka, Adam Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Dav Pilkey, Michael Buckley, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Adele Griffin, Kelly Barnhill, Lisa Brown, Daniel Jose Older, Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
ISBN #
0062385577
EAN Code
9780062385574
ISBN #
17
Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters, who are about to learn what it's like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime.Delphine, Vonetta, and Fer...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0062215876
EAN Code
9780062215871
ISBN #
12
In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home. This extraordinary novel earned five starred reviews, with Publish...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0061938645
EAN Code
9780061938641
ISBN #
11
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old?and her baby, Jose?down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There?s nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then Gayle meets...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Puffin Books
ISBN #
0140385614
EAN Code
9780140385618
ISBN #
5
Acclaimed author Rita Williams-Garcia gives readers an intimate, gritty portrayal of three very different teens on the day when everything collides.Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina.Dominique: Some stupid li...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0060760931
EAN Code
9780060760939
ISBN #
4
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.Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to b...
Author
Rita Williams-Garcia
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0060760907
EAN Code
9780060760908
ISBN #
1