num_pages: 272
description: In this exquisite sequel to the New York Times bestseller One Crazy Summer the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home.After spending the summer in Oakland with their mother and the Black Panthers Delphine Vonetta and Fern arrive home with a newfound streak of independence and the sisters aren't the only ones who have changed. Now Pa has a girlfriend. Uncle Darnell returns from Vietnam a different man. But Big Ma still expects Delphine to keep her sisters in line. That's much harder now that Vonetta and Fern refuse to be bossed around. Besides her sisters Delphine's got plenty of other things to worry about-like starting sixth grade being the tallest girl in her class and dreading the upcoming school dance (her first). The one person she confides in is her mother Cecile. Through letters Delphine pours her heart out and receives some constant advice: to be eleven while she can.The sequel to the Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner One Crazy Summer P.S. Be Eleven stands on its own as a funny moving story of three sisters coming of age in the turbulent 1960s.
language: English
title: P.S. Be Eleven
publisher: Quill Tree Books