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Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780140385618
• Sales Rank: 114,445
• Pub. Date: February 1998

Troubled fourteen-year-old Gayle is sent down South to live with her uncle and aunt, where her life begins to change as she experiences the healing power of the family.  More

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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780060760885
• Sales Rank: 94,977
• Pub. Date: January 2010

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 ...  More

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Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780064473033
• Sales Rank: 517,020
• Pub. Date: May 2002

After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's ...  More

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Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee by Rita Williams-Garcia, Mike Reed (Illustrator)

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• ISBN-13: 9781416961413
• Pub. Date: August 2007

As she tries to escape her mother's efforts to "plait-a-plait" and "string-a-bead" her hair, a young girl imagines herself escaping into a jungle.  More

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Fast Talk on a Slow Track by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780141302317
• Sales Rank: 773,008
• Pub. Date: December 1998

Black honors student Denzel Watson spends his last summer before college selling candy door-to-door in New York, competing on many levels with the charismatic Mello, and ...  More

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Join In : Multiethnic Short Stories by Donald R. Gallo, Lensey Namioka (With) , Rita Williams-Garcia (With)

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• ISBN-13: 9780440219576
• Sales Rank: 284,590
• Pub. Date: September 1995

Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.  More

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Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780061767302
• Sales Rank: 277,544
• Pub. Date: February 2009

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 ...  More

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No Laughter Here by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• ISBN-13: 9780061767364
• Sales Rank: 235,025
• Pub. Date: February 2009

In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, ...  More

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