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Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gone Crazy in Alabama | Rita Williams-Garcia
Coretta Scott King Award winner * ALA Notable Book * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors Choice * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * Washington Post Best Books of the Year * The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books Blue Ribbon Book * Three starred reviews * CCBC Choice * New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing * Amazon Best Book of the Year The Coretta Scott King Awardwinning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charless half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters havent spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth thats been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, 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 will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time.
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Very quick read. Very heavy read. Very important that you memorize this family tree before beginning! A lot of characters with very deep scars loved seeing them back on the same side of the creek. Also omg Vonetta had me sobbing and I was worried sick 🤕

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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.

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Bookwormjillk
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#12booksof2021 January

This was my favorite new to me read book in January and also one of my top audiobook listens of the year.

Andrew65 Looks fun. 3y
TheBookHippie These books are my favorite to gift to teachers.♥️♥️♥️ 3y
TheBookHippie @Andrew65 you would enjoy these books! 3y
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Andrew65 @Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie Just borrowed the first one for January. 3y
mandarchy This is one of my favorite authors! 3y
Bookwormjillk @Andrew65 fun! I hope you like it! 3y
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Bookwormjillk
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I absolutely love this series, and so do my kids. In this book the girls head to Alabama for the summer. Highly recommend this series for kids from 10 to 43!

megnews I love this so much too!!! 4y
mrp27 Agreed! Love this series. 4y
monkeygirlsmama Cute cover. 4y
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MeghanW
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Gone Crazy in Alabama is a HF book written by Rita Williams Garcia. It has won a Caldecott Medal and is the third book about sisters Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern. The sisters go visit their grandmother and great grandmother in Alabama. Delphine struggles to bring her great grandmother and her half sister together and eventually finds out what happened. #ucflae3414f17

MeghanW This book is great for independent reading. EL Strategy 9: teach note-taking strategies: t-lists, time lines etc. UDL Strategy 6.1: guide appropriate goal-setting. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/576b3d3ccd0f68b308126d6f/t/59ce4c7637c581... the link has discussion questions and different activities that students can complete after reading 7y
DrSpalding I am hoping you were a part of one crazy summer and were inspired to read the next two books in the series? If so, I am very impressed. Garcia is an excellent author of historical fiction. Great stories for literature circles that promote quality conversations. 7y
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MaureenMc
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The third (and apparently final) book in the Gaither sisters‘ series. It‘s 1969, and the girls travel to Alabama to spend the summer with their grandmother and great-grandmother. Brilliantly explores race, family, forgiveness, and growing up. Highly recommend this series!

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The third book in the Gaither #sisters series. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern spend their summer #holiday in Alabama with their grandmother.
This is a great middle grade series that gives insight into African-American culture in the late1960s. And in general is a good coming-of-age story.
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Smrloomis I love the name Delphine. Thanks for posting this! 8y
merelybookish @Smrloomis Delphine is a great name! In the first book, One Crazy Summer, they go visit their estranged mother. I think there is some discussion about how Delphine got her French name. 8y
Cinfhen The cover is superb 💞💞💞 8y
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EvieBee
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This is the third book in the Gaither Sisters Trilogy, and the Kindle book is on sale today on Amazon. #inspiredbymlk #readjanuary #kindledeals

jessdean I didn't even realize it was series!😃 I have One Crazy Summer on my kindle. Getting ready to read it soon. I'll have grab this one too!! 8y
EvieBee @jessdean I have the first book too (unread) and just got the 3rd. I need to hurry up and read it! I bought it because it was compared to this one, a childhood favorite. (edited) 8y
jessdean I think I'm gonna start with book 1, it's on one of my reading challenges for this year😃📚 8y
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megnews
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"Mrs called it the Southern goodbye because it went on and on and on and there was nothing like it in New York."

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megnews
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"Cecile was a mountain. A crazy mother mountain."

Thoroughly enjoy this audiobook on the way to school/work. My son, not so much. He says all he's learned is people arguing all the time. I said that's family but they love each other. He didn't appreciate my commentary.

While I listen, he takes lines from the book and raps them. "Checking on Butter (the cow)" becomes, "checkin on Butta checkin on Butta checkin on Butta."
Good times.

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On the way to school listening with my son

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MsSinn
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I liked this entire trilogy! This is probably the slowest of all three and for that reason, I think I liked the first two a bit better. This volume rounded things out nicely without trying too hard. One is left feeling that the girls have a bright future but personally I don't feel like I have an urgent need to know what happens next like I did with The Graveyard Book.

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OffTheBeatenShelf.com
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The first half kind of drags, but the second half picks up nicely and the conflict is more palpable. I should also mention that I didn't read the first two books in the series, so that might explain why I didn't totally love it.

TirzahPrice Oh you have to read One Crazy Summer! It's delightful and it sets up all of the characters perfectly. 8y
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OffTheBeatenShelf.com
Gone Crazy in Alabama | Rita Williams-Garcia

Ever start picking up a bunch of short books and/or kid lit because you're "next in line" for a library hold and it's taking FOREVER to come in? That's me right now. ?? But it led me to this book, so that's a good thing!

Chelsey Absolutely! I feel your pain! 8y
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LauraMole
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Sweet Oscar B and I loved this one! Families are complicated stuff but worth the struggle

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"That makes no sense," Vonetta said. "Everyone knows butter comes from milk, not the other way around."