Like Sisters on the Homefront Paperback - 1998
by Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Used
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old--and her baby, Jose--down to Georgia to live with relatives. There's nothing to do and nowhere to go. Then Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch--and her stories of the past begin to change how Gayle sees her future. A 1996 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.
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- Title Like Sisters on the Homefront
- Author Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date February 1, 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2222792-6
- ISBN 9780140385618 / 0140385614
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7 x 4.3 x 0.6 in (17.78 x 10.92 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 750
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Georgia, African Americans - Georgia
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 07/01/1999, Page 1935
- Publishers Weekly, 02/09/1998, Page 0
