Gone Crazy in Alabama

Reviewed by: Jill Hooper - Freeport Middle School, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 12, 2016

Review

The young Gaither sisters (Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern) are leaving their Brooklyn home to head to Alabama for the summer. It's 1969 and their father is sending them to spend the summer with his mother, but not without warning his girls about the differences of New York and the deep South. The girls find themselves on the farm immersed in a very different lifestyle, and learn of a rift between their grandmother and her half sister. When a tornado rips through their community, the sisters come to understand the value of family and the bonds that bind them together.

Williams-Garcia creates believable characters who feel like old friends.

Overall Book Score: very good