After one crazy summer with their mother, Cecile, in Oakland, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern fly back to Brooklyn and don't make it out of the airport without getting in trouble with Big Ma who is happy to see them but worried about their independence and "power to the people" mindset. More than the Gaither girls has changed while they were in Oakland, though. Pa's got a girlfriend, Uncle Darnell isn't the same as when he left for Vietnam, and the political air in Brooklyn and America is rapidly changing. Not to mention the country is being swept away by this hot new music group, The Jackson Five. While Delphine loves the tall one, Jermaine, her sisters are in love with the youngest Jackson named Michael. Delphine tries to be the responsible one and reign the girls in, but no one wants to listen to a bossy older sister anymore. How will the girls handle all this change? How will their mother play a role in their lives all the way from Oakland without a telephone or any way to reach her other than letters?
Find out in Rita Williams-Garcia's sequal to One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, which, through prose and letters tells the story of the Gaither girls growing up in Brooklyn in the late 60s/early 70s and Cecile's reminder to Delphine to stop growing up so fast and just be eleven. Grades 6 and up.
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