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In this Newbery Honor novel,\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading\u2014take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0P.S. Be Eleven<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Gone Crazy in Alabama<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis’s\u00a0The Watsons Go to Birmingham\u00a0<\/em>and Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s\u00a0Brown Girl Dreaming\u00a0<\/em>will find much to love in\u00a0One Crazy Summer.\u00a0<\/em>Rita Williams-Garcia’s books about\u00a0Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds’s and\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi’s books.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0One Crazy Summer,<\/em>\u00a0eleven-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 sisters\u00a0arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This novel was the first featured title for Marley D\u2019s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo,\u00a0in a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0list of “great kids’ books with diverse characters,” called it “witty and original.”<\/p>\n

“This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare,” commented Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich in her Brightly article “Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
\nPublication date: 4 Oct 2017
\nPublisher: HarperCollins
\nFormat: Paperback | 240 pages
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