The Doorbell Rang: An Enjoyable Read-Aloud About Sharing and Counting for Children

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This moving, funny novel won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern’s story continues in
and
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Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis’s
and Jacqueline Woodson＊s
will find much to love in
Rita Williams-Garcia’s books aboutDelphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds’s andIbram X. Kendi’s books.
In
eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sistersarrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.
While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.
This novel was the first featured title for Marley D＊s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo,in a
list of “great kids’ books with diverse characters,” called it “witty and original.”
Rita Williams-Garcia is one of the preeminent authors of our time. She has been honored with the Children’s Literature Lecture Award from the American Library Association.