# A Sitting in St. James

**Author:** Rita Williams-Garcia
**Grade range:** Grades 4–9
**First published:** 2021
**Page count:** 458
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780062367327`
**ISBN-10:** `0062367323`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-sitting-in-st-james
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award! 7 starred reviews! "Monumental." —Booklist (starred review) \* "A marathon masterpiece."—Kirkus (starred review) \* "Necessary."—SLJ (starred review) \* "Shocking and dramatic."—Shelf Awareness (starred review) \* "Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered."—Book Page (starred review) \* "Williams-Garcia’s storytelling is magnificent; her voice honest and authentic."—Horn Book (starred review) This astonishing novel from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork—empathetic, brutal, and entirely human—and essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism. 1860, Louisiana. After serving

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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