Rita Williams-Garcia’s Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, P.S. Be Eleven was also a Coretta Scott King Author Award winner and an ALA Notable Children’s Book for Middle Readers.
"Equal parts history and tantalizing, chaotic drama,
Williams-Garcia's stunning novel delivers a fresh and nuanced
approach to the tale of American slavery... Best-selling,
award-winning Williams-Garcia's return to YA, particularly with a
book as monumental as this, is definite cause for celebration." —
Booklist (starred review)
"With a cast of characters whose assorted genealogies feel like an
ode to the mixing of peoples and cultures in Louisiana, this story
broadens and emboldens interrogations of U.S. chattel
slavery... A marathon masterpiece that shares a holistic
portrait of U.S. history that must not be dismissed or forgotten."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In this sweeping, richly researched, and powerfully delivered tale
of privilege and exploitation—often a difficult
read—Williams-Garcia’s storytelling is magnificent; her voice
honest and authentic." — Horn Book (starred review)
"This is a wonderful character-driven novel as stories of the
enslaved and the slaveowners are simultaneously told... This
novel is a necessary purchase for conversations about slavery’s
legacy in the Black Lives Matter era." — School Library Journal
(starred review)
"The masterful Rita Williams-Garcia depicts the brutality and
inhumanity of slavery in the antebellum South by intertwining the
lives of the white Guilbert family and the Black people they
enslaved in this shocking and dramatic novel." — Shelf Awareness
(starred review)
“A Sitting in St. James is a mesmerizing, confounding and
vividly rendered portrait of the thoroughly putrid institution of
slavery in antebellum Louisiana.” — BookPage (starred review)
"Offers an unvarnished look at a slowly toppling power structure
obsessed with artifice and tradition, hinting through a notably
long-view lens that new generations may, slowly and not without
suffering, move away from antiquated ideology." — Publishers
Weekly
"Williams-Garcia is chessmaster of a deviously intricate game;
Madame Sylvie may make the boldest moves, but it’s her hobbled
pawn, the near-silent servant Thisbe, who listens, observes,
learns, and amasses the knowledge to strike the queen with a coup
de grâce." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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