Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia is an American writer of novels for children and young adults. Her best-known work includes One Crazy Summer, the first Gaither Sisters book, which won a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Award and a Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, about a boy who finds music and community underground after a sudden move, was a National Book Award finalist in 2017. Williams-Garcia's P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama also won Coretta Scott King Awards.