![]() When I got audible I decided to purchase it, and was not disappointed. I first read this book as a little girl and fell in love with it. A strong choice for summer and for sparking conversation in the classroom or at home. Like Sisters on the Homefront is a fast, gritty listen about mistakes, second chances, and family. And slowly, the stories of her roots begin to change how Gayle sees her future. Gayle is stuck cleaning up after Great, the old family matriarch who stays upstairs in her bed.īut the more she spends time with Cookie and Great, Gayle learns about her family’s history and secrets, stretching all the way back through the preachers and ancestors of the past. In a small town in Georgia, there is nowhere to go but church, nothing to do but chores, and no friends except her goody-goody, big-boned, kneesock-wearing cousin, Cookie. ![]() When 14-year-old Gayle gets in trouble with a boy - again - her mother doesn’t give her a choice: Gayle is getting sent away from New York to her family down South, along with her baby, José. This novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor-winning author is about one girl’s discovery of her family history - and her own place within it. ![]() Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. ![]()
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