From the rear cover
It's the summer of 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit Big Ma and her eighty-two-year-old mother, Ma Charles. Pa can't remind them enough that the South's not like Brooklyn, and that you can't get more southern than Alabama.
Across the field, through the pines, and over the creek is the Trotter home, where Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter, lives. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years, each determined to hold on to her version of the truth. Dramatic Vonetta plays middleman to the two warring, elderly sisters, while Delphine struggles against her to bring the family together. As Delphine hears about family history that she never knew existed, she learns of a hurt that happened many years ago--which maybe can't be mended. But when a tragedy comes to the farm in Alabama, 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 stands on its own as a story that brilliantly reveals the history of an African-American family in all its richness and complexity, superbly written by master storyteller Rita Williams-Garcia.
Details
- Title Gone Crazy in Alabama
- Author Rita Williams-Garcia
- Binding Library Binding
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Quill Tree Books
- Date 2015-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780062215888 / 0062215884
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 740
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Sisters, African American women
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014922274
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 05/01/2015, Page 471
- Horn Book Magazine, 03/01/2015, Page 112
- School Library Journal, 03/01/2015, Page 145
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