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One crazy summer Cover Image E-book E-book

One crazy summer [electronic resource] / by Rita Williams-Garcia.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780061966675
  • ISBN: 0061966673
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)
  • Publisher: New York : Amistad, c2010.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 9-12.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject: Sisters > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Poets > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Black Panther Party > Fiction.
Civil rights movements > Fiction.
Oakland (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
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.
Family
Girls & Women
Prejudice & Racism
Black Panther Party.
African Americans.
Civil rights movements.
Mothers.
Poets.
Sisters.
California > Oakland.
Genre: Electronic books.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.


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