Sunday, October 26, 2014

P. S. Be Eleven / Rita Williams-Garcia / 274 pages

Continuing the story begun in One Crazy Summer, P. S. Be Eleven recounts the experiences of the Gaither sisters when they return home from spending the summer with their mother.  "After soaking up a power to the people mindset" in California, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return to Brooklyn with a newfound streak of independence.  Pa has a girlfriend; Uncle Darnell is home from Viet Nam and has brought home some serious problems; and the girls are saving all their money to attend a Jackson Five concert at Madison Square Garden.  This is a time machine to the radical changes occurring in the 1960's.  Delphine's letters to her mother, and her advice not to grow up too fast, provide an intimate, moving, sometimes humorous spotlight on a turbulent time/family.


Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2015-16

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