One Crazy Summer
New York, NY : Amistad, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 218 pages ; 22 cm
In the summer of 1968, after traveling 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.
Subjects:
Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Poets -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Poets -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Grades 4-7.
ISBN:
9780060760892 (reinforced)
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More Formats
John Newbery Medal Honor, 2011.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2011.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2011.
A Junior Library Guild selection