Rita Williams-Garcia 's Newbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer , was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama , were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Children's Books. She is also the author of the NAACP Image Award-winning and National Book Award finalist Clayton Byrd Goes Underground ; A Sitting in St. James , a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and Los Angeles Times Book Award winner; Like Sisters on the Homefront , a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Blue Tights ; and four ALA Best Books for Young Adults: Jumped , a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here ; Every Time a Rainbow Dies , a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book; and Fast Talk on a Slow Track . Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters. You can visit her online at ritawg.

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