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Alexa Hamilton
Mar 06, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Gayle is the kind of character I wished I could have introduced to the girls I used to teach on the west side of Chicago. She is mad, the world doesn't care about her and she cares about little except boys and her homegirls. Maybe her baby Jose, too. And she is just as mad and impossible when she gets sent down to live with her uncle, Pastor Luther Gates. Does she come around? Enough. In a scant 163 pages, Williams-Garcia manages to write a whole story, one that doesn't feel truncated or rushed. ...more