Rita Williams-Garcia

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1989
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Delphine

1 - One Crazy Summer (Feb-2010)
2 - P.S. Be Eleven (May-2013)

One Crazy Summer

1 - One Crazy Summer (Feb-2010)
2 - P.S. Be Eleven (May-2013)
3 - Gone Crazy in Alabama (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Blue Tights

    Growing up in a city neighborhood, fifteen-year-old Joyce, unsure of herself and not quite comfortable with her maturing body, tries to find a place to belong and a way to express herself through dance....

  • Like Sisters on the Homefront

    Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. This novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author is about one girl’s discovery of her family history -- and her o...

  • Fast Talk on a Slow Track

    From National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia!

    Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it's made him valedictorian. But when he goes to a summer program at Princeton, he takes a fall. How can he tell his proud family that h...

  • Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee

    Avoiding her mother’s efforts to braid and bead her hair, a young girl imagines herself running away to a jungle.Racing through her house to avoid having her hair braided, a young girl relies on her imagination to help her escape the threat of ...

  • Every Time a Rainbow Dies

    From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Dies is a moving, lyrical, and diverse love story -- perfect for fans of One Crazy Summer who are ready for an older voice. Dreamy Thulani spends most o...

  • Jumped

    The wrong angle Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina. Dominique: Some stup...

  • No Laughter Here

    In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to highlight an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year, and to explore a perspective not ofte...

  • One Crazy Summer

    Delphine - 1
    One Crazy Summer - 1

    Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Ce...

  • P.S. Be Eleven

    Delphine - 2
    One Crazy Summer - 2

    Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She’s just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She’s supposed t...



  • Gone Crazy in Alabama

    One Crazy Summer - 3

    Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters, who are about to learn what it's like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for t...

  • Bottle Cap Boys Dancing on Royal Street

    Tap dancing on sidewalks, especially in the city's French Quarter, is a New Orleans tradition as familiar to some as Jazz, Creole and Cajun food and Mardi Gras. For generations, Black youngsters have danced for tourists on the streets of New Orleans ...

  • Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

    A powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can’t wait to ...

  • Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set

    All three books in the Coretta Scott King Award-winning series by New York Times-bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia are now available in one beautiful, giftable box set! Each humorous, unforgettable story follows the Gaither sisters as they ...

  • A Sitting in St. James

    A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantation -- and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there -- is essential reading for both teens and adults grap...

Award-Winning Books by Rita Williams-Garcia

Gone Crazy in Alabama
2016 Coretta Scott King Award -- Author
One Crazy Summer
2011 Coretta Scott King Award -- Author
2011 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
P.S. Be Eleven
2014 Coretta Scott King Award -- Author
A Sitting in St. James
2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


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Rita Williams-Garcia has published 14 books.

Rita Williams-Garcia does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Sitting in St. James, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Rita Williams-Garcia, Blue Tights, was published in November 1989.

Yes. Rita Williams-Garcia has 2 series.
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