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P.S. Be eleven / by Rita Williams-Garcia.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Williams-Garcia, Rita, author.
Contributor:
DiSiena, Laura Lyn, typographer.
Amistad (Firm), publisher.
HarperCollins (Firm), publisher.
Award Winning and Notable Children's and Young Adult Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Gaither sisters series ; 2.
[Gaither sisters ; 2]
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Families.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans.
Letters--Juvenile fiction.
Letters.
Mothers--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers.
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life.
Girls--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Girls.
Girls--Conduct of life.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.).
Sisters--Fiction.
Family life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York--Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction -- Juvenile.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Dust jackets (Binding) -- 2013.
Bildungsromans -- 2013.
Novels.
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, 274 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
P.S. Be 11
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]
Summary:
The Gaither sisters are back in Brooklyn, where changes large and small come to their household as they grow up during the turbulent 1960s.
Contents:
A grand Negro spectacle
Opression
My girl
Herkimer Street
Heckle and Jeckle
My darling daughters
P.S. be eleven
Meeting Miss Hendrix
To and from Cecile
School shopping
I want you back
At Madison Square Garden
Doves
The mummy jar
Grade six
The subject was Zambia
Your mother. Nzila
Hooah
Uncle D's bag
Half-moons and squiggles
Brooklyn magic
Sonny Bono has a big nose
Chinua Achebe
Sick visit
Through the grapevine
Jack and the giant
Twelve
Hee Haw square dance
Suited to be president
Sweetie and honey
True-blue
Change of seasons
Another drumroll
Taste of power
Never on a Sunday
My girls
I'm not Muhammad
Quick-fast-in-a-hurry
Every good-bye
Merry like Christmas
Real
On Atlantic Avenue
Dance, grade six
Who's loving you?
Notes:
Sequel to: One crazy summer.
"Typography by Laura DiSiena."--Title page verso.
Coretta Scott King Award, 2014.
Other Format:
Online version: Williams-Garcia, Rita. P.S. be eleven.
ISBN:
9780061938634
9780061938627
0061938629
0061938637
9780061938641
0061938645
OCLC:
846490631
Publisher Number:
99990724627

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