Gone Crazy in Alabama | 
pickVery quick read. Very heavy read. Very important that you memorize this family tree before beginning! A lot of characters with very deep scars loved seeing them back on the same side of the creek. Also omg Vonetta had me sobbing and I was worried sick 🤕
pickDelphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles‘s half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven‘t spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that‘s been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible.
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This was my favorite new to me read book in January and also one of my top audiobook listens of the year.
pickI absolutely love this series, and so do my kids. In this book the girls head to Alabama for the summer. Highly recommend this series for kids from 10 to 43!
pickGone Crazy in Alabama is a HF book written by Rita Williams Garcia. It has won a Caldecott Medal and is the third book about sisters Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern. The sisters go visit their grandmother and great grandmother in Alabama. Delphine struggles to bring her great grandmother and her half sister together and eventually finds out what happened. #ucflae3414f17
pickThe third (and apparently final) book in the Gaither sisters‘ series. It‘s 1969, and the girls travel to Alabama to spend the summer with their grandmother and great-grandmother. Brilliantly explores race, family, forgiveness, and growing up. Highly recommend this series!
The third book in the Gaither #sisters series. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern spend their summer #holiday in Alabama with their grandmother.
This is a great middle grade series that gives insight into African-American culture in the late1960s. And in general is a good coming-of-age story.
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This is the third book in the Gaither Sisters Trilogy, and the Kindle book is on sale today on Amazon. #inspiredbymlk #readjanuary #kindledeals
"Mrs called it the Southern goodbye because it went on and on and on and there was nothing like it in New York."
"Cecile was a mountain. A crazy mother mountain."
Thoroughly enjoy this audiobook on the way to school/work. My son, not so much. He says all he's learned is people arguing all the time. I said that's family but they love each other. He didn't appreciate my commentary.
While I listen, he takes lines from the book and raps them. "Checking on Butter (the cow)" becomes, "checkin on Butta checkin on Butta checkin on Butta."
Good times.
pickI liked this entire trilogy! This is probably the slowest of all three and for that reason, I think I liked the first two a bit better. This volume rounded things out nicely without trying too hard. One is left feeling that the girls have a bright future but personally I don't feel like I have an urgent need to know what happens next like I did with The Graveyard Book.
so-soThe first half kind of drags, but the second half picks up nicely and the conflict is more palpable. I should also mention that I didn't read the first two books in the series, so that might explain why I didn't totally love it.
Ever start picking up a bunch of short books and/or kid lit because you're "next in line" for a library hold and it's taking FOREVER to come in? That's me right now. ?? But it led me to this book, so that's a good thing!
pickSweet Oscar B and I loved this one! Families are complicated stuff but worth the struggle
"That makes no sense," Vonetta said. "Everyone knows butter comes from milk, not the other way around."
