Rita Williams-Garcia
Auteur de One Crazy Summer
A propos de l'auteur
Rita Williams-Garcia graduated from Hofstra University. She has written several books including Blue Tights, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Fast Talk on a Slow Track, One Crazy Summer, and No Laughter Here. Like Sisters on the Homefront was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She won the PEN/Norma afficher plus Klein Award. She currently teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children and Young Adults Program. She won the Coretta Scott King awards in 2016 with her title Gone Crazy in Alabama in the author category. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Rita Williams-Garcia
No laughter here 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-04-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Queens, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Hofstra University
- Professions
- creative writing teacher
fiction writer - Organisations
- Vermont College
- Prix et distinctions
- ALSC Children's Literature Lecture Award (2023)
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Critiques
This is the first time I've come across a historical fiction about the Black Panthers, and I loved it! Appropriately thoughtful in its subject matter, and the precocious narrator charmed me to no end. A tiny, underappreciated work of art.
Great story, especially if you are one of three sisters and enjoy historical fiction!
Rita Williams Garcia focuses on Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern returning to Brooklyn New York with a new idea of independence. After spending the summer with their mother and the Panthers they realized that life is changing for them and their grandmother does not approve. Their lives are changing and is seems like everyones growing up. The girls are reminded by their mother to stay of the age eleven and not grow up too fast. this book teaches children about the changes that come when they grow up and to realize that is good to still feel like a child even though people are changing and growth is happening. This novel is great for older children possibly in 4-5th grade.… (plus d'informations)
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Newbery Adjacent (1)
Youth: BLM (1)
Summer (1)
Black Authors (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 6,801
- Popularité
- #3,593
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 347
- ISBN
- 174
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
the necks of the enslaved Black people on their antebellum Louisiana plantation, Williams-Garcia has crafted an
intense saga. Masterly characterization, nuanced machinations, and incisive language are on full display in this
novel that also sheds light on current conversations about race and power.