Rita Williams-Garcia was was born to write stories. When she is not working, she is daydreaming or plotting out her next story. Her middle-grade novel ONE CRAZY SUMMER was a New York Times bestseller, Newbery Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. The recently published sequel, P.S. BE ELEVEN, won the 2014 ALA Coretta Scott King Author Book Award.

Books by Rita Williams-Garcia

Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids

by Elissa Brent Weissman, Kwame Alexander, Tom Angleberger, Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle, Candace Fleming, Marla Frazee, Chris Gall, Alex Gino, Chris Grabenstein, Gordon Korman, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Thanhha Lai, Peter Lerangis, Gail Carson Levine, Grace Lin, Yuyi Morales, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Dan Santat, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Rita Williams-Garcia - Careers, Children's 8-12, Nonfiction

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

Written by Rita Williams-Garcia with illustrations by Frank Morrison - Children's 8-12, Fiction, Prejudice , Racism

Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street

by Rita Williams-Garcia - Children's, Picture

Gone Crazy in Alabama

by Rita Williams-Garcia - Family Life, Fiction

P.S. Be Eleven

by Rita Williams-Garcia - African American Interest, Culture, Historical Fiction, Youth Fiction

One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia