

P.S. Be Eleven
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 05/21/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 05/21/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Children’s Books. She is also the author of the NAACP Image Award–winning and National Book Award finalist Clayton Byrd Goes Underground; A Sitting in St. James, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner and Los Angeles Times Book Award winner; Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Blue Tights; and four ALA Best Books for Young Adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here; Every Time a Rainbow Dies, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book; and Fast Talk on a Slow Track. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters. You can visit her online at ritawg.com.
It's entirely possible that I love this continuation of the Gaither sisters' small saga even more than the first award winning smash of a novel, but that could just be proximity talking. Since I just finished this lovely sequel and am still hearing the Jackson Five in my head, smelling Big Ma's cook......more
Truth be told, I didn't understand the Rita Williams-Garcia hype before reading P.S. Be Eleven. I'd read a couple of her books, notably 2011 Newbery Honoree One Crazy Summer, but wasn't convinced she belonged in the discussion with the top children's authors of her day. Her writing was never dull, c......more
Reviewed on blog and below. A huge fanof Rita Willliams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer, I was incredibly happy when it got a great deal of award-love and recognition. I mean, who could not be taken with those three sisters going off to spend the summer in California with the Black Panther mother they ne......more
I know it's a book for children but I felt like Williams-Garcia included some mature topics like PTSD without any support to help kids think through this and honestly it might go over their heads. I loved it as an adult reader. I enjoyed seeing Delphine grow up. I also wish Williams Garcia chose les......more