![]() ![]() ![]() Williams-Garcia excels at conveying defining moments of American society from their point of view-this is historical fiction that’s as full of heart as it is of heartbreak. EVERY TIME A RAINBOW DIES by Rita Williams-Garcia Age Range: 14 & up BUY NOW FROM BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: KIRKUS REVIEW An immigrant teen is shaken out of his reclusive existence into a world of love and life when he witnesses a girl being raped and decides he must act. Though the plot involves more quotidian events than the first book, the Gaither sisters are an irresistible trio. Reflecting society at large in 1968, change and conflict have the Gaither household in upheaval: Pa has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell returns from Vietnam a damaged young man, and the sixth-grade teacher Delphine hoped to get has been replaced by a man from Zambia. Delphine, who again narrates, loses interest in magazines like Tiger Beat and Seventeen: “When there’s Afros and black faces on the cover, I’ll buy one,” she tells a storeowner. Big Ma, their grandmother, is no longer just a stern taskmaster, she’s an oppressor. It wasn’t the California vacation they expected, but the experience rocked their world. Delphine and her sisters return to Brooklyn from visiting their estranged mother, Cecile, a poet who sent them off every day to a camp run by the Black Panthers in Williams-Garcia’s Newbery Honor–winning One Crazy Summer. ![]()
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