Format:
Book
Title:
One crazy summer / Rita Williams-Garcia.
Author:
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Call Number:
jFIC WILLIAMS R
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : HarperCollins, 2010.
Description:
218 p.; 22 cm.
Summary:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling 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.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Poets -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Honor.
Coretta Scott King Award.
Scott O'Dell Award.
Children's core collection.
ISBN:
9780060760885 (trade bdg.)
0060760885 (trade bdg.)
9780060760892 (lib. bdg.)
0060760893 (lib. bdg.)