A review by yapha
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia

5.0

In this third book about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, they are off to spend the summer of 1969 down home in Alabama with their grandmother Big Ma and their great-grandmother, Ma Charles. The main focus of this book is family, as Delphine finds it harder and harder to get along with Vonetta. The three girls also become embroiled in a decades old family feud between Ma Charles and her "over the creek" half sister, Miss Trotter. While there has been certainly been tragedies in the past, their family story is told with love, laughter, and a hope for the future. The contrasts between their life in Brooklyn, their mother's life in Oakland, and what life is still like in Alabama are drastic but believable. Readers of the first two will not want to miss this final installment. It does stand alone but readers will appreciate it much more if they have read the other two. Recommended for grades 4-7.

ARC provided by publisher.