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One Crazy Summer
By Williams-Garcia, Rita
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06076-088-5
- Publisher
- Amistad
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Gr 4-7 It is 1968, and three black sisters from Brooklyn have been put on a California-bound plane by their father to spend a month with their mother, a poet who ran off years before and is living in Oakland. It's the summer after Black Panther founder Huey Newton was jailed and member Bobby Hutton was gunned down trying to surrender to the Oakland police, and there are men in berets shouting "Black Power" on the news. Delphine, 11, remembers her mother, but after years of separation she's ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2010 |
It's the summer of 1968, and eleven-year-old Delphine reluctantly shepherds her two younger sisters on their trip from Brooklyn to Oakland, where the mother who deserted them now lives. Thoroughly coached by her grandmother about how little Negro girls should behave to avoid scenes, Delphine maintains her own sensibility about what is appropriate and makes sure her sisters toe the line. Their mother Cecile is far from welcoming, sending them each day to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Starred Review on January 1, 2010
Eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters spend the summer of 1968 in Oakland visiting the mother who deserted them and g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
