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Rita garcia parents11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() “We scream like it’s the Jackson Five!” she says. “I feel like a child on a sugar rush-I want to see everything and read everything.” She is especially thrilled when she spies books by her students at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she teaches in the Writing for Children and Young Adults program. While at BEA, “I have to walk the entire floor,” she says. Be Eleven today, 10:30–11 a.m., at Table 9 in the Autographing Area. Next, Delphine is going to be concerned with her family breaking up.” “We’ve seen the girls and their mother and the Movement and the girls at home. The author plans to relive the era one more time with Delphine and her sisters in a “third and final book of the family saga,” Williams-Garcia says. The result can “maybe have more of an effect than reading it in a history book.” ![]() ![]() “My hope is that kids will ask their grandparents and aunts who remember that time in detail and who, in story, can tell them about their experiences,” Williams-Garcia says. Though readers learn more about Delphine’s journey, they also glean some history of the day, be it the effects of the Vietnam War on a relative or the girls’ Jackson Five fever. Halfway through One Crazy Summer, I would make notes that said, ‘leave it alone, belongs in book two,’ because there was too much for just one book.” The more I understood why and how things happened, I could see those scenes. The author had not initially planned on doing a sequel-“absolutely not!” she says with a laugh. “Her father is remarrying, and Delphine knows that he never married her mother, so she wonders if her parents ever loved each other.” Moving on to the celebrity reporter’s family background, she has not. Furthermore, the reporter is of American origin and was born under the sign of Taurus. The reporter was born in Texas, United States. Similarly, the reporter is 33 years old, as if now. But they walk into all kinds of changes.” Inspiration for this second installment came largely from “Delphine’s desire to know something more about love and her family,” the author says. Rita Garcia was born in 1988 and celebrates her birthday on April 24th every year. “We follow the girls back to Brooklyn, to their familiar surroundings, where they are reunited with family. The new book “picks up where One Crazy Summer leaves off,” says Williams-Garcia. Be Eleven, out this month from HarperCollins/Amistad with a 50,000-copy first printing, Williams-Garcia again looks at the changes sweeping the nation in the late 1960s through the eyes of a family going through changes of its own. And the memorable adventures of three young sisters during the tumultuous summer of 1968 were at the heart of her 2010 middle-grade novel, One Crazy Summer, a Newbery Honor Book and a National Book Award finalist. “Family stories are how we remember,” says Rita Williams-Garcia. ![]()
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