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P.S. Be eleven / by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Van Pelt - Notable Juvenile Books PZ7.W6713 Paam 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams-Garcia, Rita, author.
- 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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