Like Sisters on the Homefront

Like Sisters on the HomefrontSupplier: Quill Tree Books Rita Williams Garcias masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and powerfully relevant. This novel by a master storyteller and Newbery Honor winning author is about one girls discovery of her family historyand her own place within it. When fourteen year old Gayle gets in trouble with a boyagainher mother doesnt give her a choice: Gayle is getting sent away from New York to her family down South,

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