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Award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia was one of the featured authors at the 2017 StoryfestSC, an annual event sponsored by the South Carolina State Library. Knowitall talked to Rita about her Gaither Sisters Series (One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama) and her latest book, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground.
Rita also shared some insight into her writing process and offers advice to young aspiring writers.
Other books by Rita Williams-Garcia include:
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (2017)
- Bottle Cap Boys (2015)
- Gone Crazy in Alabama (2015)
- P.S. Be Eleven (2013)
- One Crazy Summer (2010)
- Jumped (2009)
- No Laughter Here (2004)
- Every Time a Rainbow Dies (2001)
- Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee (2000)
- Like Sisters on the Homefront (1995)
- Fast Talk on a Slow Track (1991)
- Blue Tights (1987)
Standards
- RI.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
- RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose or perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.MC Meaning and Context
- RI.MC Meaning and Context
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