One crazy summer
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2011 - HarperCollins, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23212618M
- ISBN-139780060760885
- OCLC Control Number319320797
- OCLC Control Number769230502
- Internet Archiveonecrazysummer00will_0
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009009293
- Goodreads6609764
- LibraryThing9160752
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.W6713 On 2010
- LCCPS3545.I557 O54 2010
and 1 more
- LCCPZ7.W6713On 2010
Description
Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past.When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education.Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling 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.
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Topics
Genres
- Fiction
Other Editions
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