In a compelling story about three sisters who go to Oakland,
CA, in 1968, to meet the mother who abandoned them, acclaimed
author Rita Williams-Garcia writes with insight and humor about
family, politics, and identity. Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a
mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. When they
arrive on the West Coast, their mother decides that they will
attend a summer camp each day run by the Black Panthers, while they
wonder what really goes on at home in her kitchen, where she runs
her own printing press.
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Winner of the PENNorma Klein Award, Rita Williams-Garcia is
the author of five other distinguished novels for young adults:
Blue Tights, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Fast Talk on a Slow Track,
Like Sisters on the Homefront, and No Laughter Here, the latter
four of which were chosen as ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Like
Sisters on the Homefront was also named a Coretta Scott King Honor
Book and a best book of the year by ALA Booklist, School Library
Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books, and
Publishers Weekly. She has also written an acclaimed novel for
middle-grade readers, One Crazy Summer, which the New York Times
called "a powerful and affecting story of sisterhood and
motherhood." Rita Williams-Garcia is currently a faculty member at
the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children and
Young Adults Program. She has two daughters, Michelle and
Stephanie, and lives in Jamaica, New York.