One Crazy Summer : A Newbery Honor Award Winner Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Used
In a humorous and breakout book by Williams-Garcia, the Penderwicks meet the Black Panthers in 1968 Oakland, California.
Description
Details
- Title One Crazy Summer : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
- Author Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2010-01-26
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4317380-6
- ISBN 9780060760885 / 0060760885
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 750
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Sisters, African Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009009293
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/2010, Page 61
- Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2011, Page 13
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 02/01/2010, Page 0
- Horn Book Magazine, 03/01/2010, Page 77
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2010, Page 0
- Kirkus Review - Children, 01/15/2010, Page 91
- Multicultural Review, 08/01/2010, Page 73
- New York Times Book Review, 01/17/2010, Page 12
- Publishers Weekly, 01/04/2010, Page 47
- School Library Journal, 03/01/2010, Page 170
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2010, Page 34
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 06/01/2010, Page 0
