A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-GarciaRequirements: .ePUB readers, 5 MB | RetailOverview: A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantation—and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there—is essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American […]
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-GarciaRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2MBOverview: Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is just as fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant today as when it was first published. It is now being reissued with a beautiful, contemporary new cover! When fourteen-year-old Gayle gets in trouble with a […]
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-GarciaRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MBOverview: From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his […]
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia Requirements: ePUB Reader, 1.5MBOverview: Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen—he can’t wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and […]
Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-GarciaRequirements: ePUB/MOBI Reader, 860kbOverview: In a beautifully written but hard-hitting tale about the harsh realities of life, African-American author Rita Williams-Garcia offers the elegantly poignant young adult novel Every Time a Rainbow Dies. Sixteen-year-old Thulani has been adrift in his life ever since the death of his mother. […]