One crazy summer /by Rita Williams-Garcia.

Williams-Garcia, Rita,

One crazy summer /by Rita Williams-Garcia. - first edition. - New York : Amistad, (c)2010. - 218 pages ; 22 cm.

Sequel: P.S. Be eleven.

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.



A Junior Library Guild selection Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011. Newbery Honor Book, 2011. National Book Award finalist, 2010

9780060760885 9780060760892

2009009293


Black Panther Party--Juvenile fiction.


Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers--Juvenile fiction.
Poets--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements--Juvenile fiction.

PZ7 / .O543 2010 PZ7