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Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia 0000000067575336 Rita Williams-Garcia, a PEN/Norma Klein Award winner, is known for her distinguished young adult and middle-grade novels, including ALA Best Books and Coretta Sc...

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Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others

Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watso...

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If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War

by Rita Williams

If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War Rita Williams 9780151011544 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt When Rita Williams was ...

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Rita Williams-Garcia

by Mélina Mangal

Rita Williams-Garcia Mélina Mangal 9781584152170 Nonfiction Mitchell Lane Mitchell Lane Publishers This work explores the life and literary career of Rita Williams-Garcia, the award-winning African Am...

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Rita Williams-Garcia on her novel "P.S. Be Eleven"

Category: Book Spotlights

Rita Williams-Garcia on her novel "P.S. Be Eleven" Book Spotlights Rita Williams-Garcia (https://aalbc.it/ritawg) Here Rita, an National Book Award finalist, introduces us to her latest book "P.S. Be ...

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Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street Rita Williams-Garcia 9781603490306 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Tap dancing on sidewalks, especially in the city’s French Quarter, is a New Orleans...

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A Sitting in St. James

by Rita Williams-Garcia

A Sitting in St. James Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062367297 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!Monumental. —Booklist (starred review)A marathon masterpiece...

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Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062889652 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins All three books in the Coretta Scott ...

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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215918 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!"This slim novel strikes a strong ...

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She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner

by Rita Williams-Garcia

She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner Rita Williams-Garcia 9780593115954 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton ...

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Every Time a Rainbow Dies

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Every Time a Rainbow Dies Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079267 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Di...

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Jumped

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079281 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narr...

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No Laughter Here

by Rita Williams-Garcia

No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079298 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic...

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Like Sisters on the Homefront

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062823922 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and pow...

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Gone Crazy in Alabama

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215871 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Coretta Scott King Award Winner and AALBC.com bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gait...

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One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia 9780060760908 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonet...

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Fast Talk On A Slow Track

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Fast Talk On A Slow Track Rita Williams-Garcia 9780141302317 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it’s made him valedictorian. But when he goes t...

Events

NBWC Biennial Symposium

NBWC Biennial Symposium Medgar Evers College Brooklyn New York In 2025, honoring Tony Medina and Rita Williams-Garcia for their contributions to Black Young Adult & Middle Grade Literature. The Bienn...

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One Crazy Summer (The Graphic Novel)

by Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer (The Graphic Novel) Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062935588 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins “I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cookin...

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Blackout

by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others

Blackout Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Re...

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...

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The Hero Next Door

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

The Hero Next Door Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646303 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Sto...

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Two Naomis

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick

Two Naomis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062414250 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A realistic contemporary story of two girls, both named Naomi, whose divorced parents begi...

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P.S. Be Eleven

by Rita Williams-Garcia

P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia 9780061938641 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Cr...

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P.S. Be Eleven

by Rita Williams-Garcia

P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia 9780061938627 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Cr...

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Blue Tights

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Blue Tights Rita Williams-Garcia 9780140380453 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Joyce Collins desperately wants to be accepted into the popular circle, and when she is cut from the ballet re...

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The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay

by Ryan Douglass

The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay Ryan Douglass 9780063312487 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “Douglass sets a classic on fire with an inspired recasting that strips away time and all expe...

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The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646334 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books comes a middle-grade short-story coll...

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All the Things We Never Knew

by Liara Tamani

All the Things We Never Knew Liara Tamani 9780062656919 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins “Tamani masterfully bounces and slams two hearts up and down a shrouded court of first love and revelati...

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It All Comes Down to This

by Karen English

It All Comes Down to This Karen English 9780358098539 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A powerful middle grade coming-of-age novel set in a slowly integrating upper middle class Los Angeles neighbo...

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The Season of Styx Malone (paperback)

by Kekla Magoon

The Season of Styx Malone (paperback) Kekla Magoon 9781524715984 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House A Coretta Scott King Honor Book And The Winner Of The Boston Globe Horn Book...

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Naomis Too

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick

Naomis Too Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062685155 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins A heartfelt, sweet, social justice-themed ode to blended and unconventional fam...

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It All Comes Down to This

by Karen English

It All Comes Down to This Karen English 9780544839571 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins It’s 1965, Los Angeles. All twelve-year-old Sophie wants to do is write her book, star in the community play, ...

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One Death, Nine Stories

by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.

One Death, Nine Stories Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763652852 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press How could one teenage boy’s life elicit other kids’ first experiences — even after...

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Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.

Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763660680 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacul...

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