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Well, that gave me a whole lotta feels.
Middle grade fiction. In 1968, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are sent from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to spend a month with the mother that disappeared from their lives years before. Cecile, their mother is not the warm cookie baking mother; she adopted a new name, Nzila, and publishes her own poetry. She is also involved with the Black Panther movement and the girls spend most of their days at the Black Panther run summer camp for children.
Williams-Garcia does an excellent job of crafting th ...more
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Williams-Garcia, Rita, and Ola Kapusto. One Crazy Summer. New York: Amistad, 2010. Print. 218 p.
Scott O'Dell Award 2011
Eleven year old Delphine and her two younger sisters Vonetta and Fern are visiting their estranged mother, Cecil as she is to be called, in Oakland, California during their summer break from school. Growing up in the late 1960's as African-American girls in Brooklyn with their Pa and grandmother, Big Ma and without their mother, the girls face difficulties, but nothing prepares ...more
Scott O'Dell Award 2011
Eleven year old Delphine and her two younger sisters Vonetta and Fern are visiting their estranged mother, Cecil as she is to be called, in Oakland, California during their summer break from school. Growing up in the late 1960's as African-American girls in Brooklyn with their Pa and grandmother, Big Ma and without their mother, the girls face difficulties, but nothing prepares ...more
Practically perfect in every way. Here's who this book is ideal for: people who love history. People who were kids, ever. People who remember the moment when they realized their parents were just people. People who like reading about characters who aren't nice all the time. People who enjoy family stories that are long on humanity & short on treacle. I love the Gaither sisters & can't wait to read Books 2 & 3. Surely will.
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Excellent book. Nice historical fiction, great writing, funny, informative and heart-breaking/warming... Recommend to most anyone will certainly read the next one.
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