One Crazy Summer: One Crazy Summer

One Crazy Summer: One Crazy Summer

<p><strong>In this Newbery Honor novel, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare."*</strong></p><p>Eleven-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 arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.</p><p>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><p>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 <em>P.S. Be Eleven</em> and <em>Gone Crazy in Alabama</em>. </p><p>Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's <em>The Watsons Go to Birmingham </em>and Jacqueline Woodson's <em>Brown Girl Dreaming </em>will find much to love in <em>One Crazy Summer</em>.</p><p>This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a <em>New York Times</em> list of "great kids' books with diverse characters," called it "witty and original."</p><p><em>*Brightly, in Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's article "</em><STRONG_FONT_ELEMENT style='FONT-SIZE: 2.66em; FONT-FAMILY: "URW Grotesk T W01", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(34,30,31); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 1px; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; MARGIN-TOP: 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.2em; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(244,244,244); MARGIN-RIGHT: 1px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial'><em>Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality"</em></strong></p>