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In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading\u2014take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.<\/p>\n

This moving, funny novel won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern’s story continues in\u00a0P.S. Be Eleven\u00a0and\u00a0Gone Crazy in Alabama.<\/p>\n

Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis’s\u00a0The Watsons Go to Birmingham\u00a0and Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s\u00a0Brown Girl Dreaming\u00a0will find much to love in\u00a0One Crazy Summer. Rita Williams-Garcia’s books about\u00a0Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds’s and\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi’s books.<\/p>\n

In One Crazy Summer,\u00a0eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters\u00a0arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.<\/p>\n

While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.<\/p>\n

This novel was the first featured title for Marley D\u2019s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo,\u00a0in a New York Times list of “great kids’ books with diverse characters,” called it “witty and original.”<\/p>\n

“This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare,” commented\u00a0Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich in her Brightly article “Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality.”<\/p>\n

Rita Williams-Garcia is one of the preeminent authors of our time. She has been honored with the Children’s Literature Lecture Award from the American Library Association.<\/p>\n

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More from Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia
\n A powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer. The Gaither sisters travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime. All three books in the Gaither Sisters series are now available in one beautiful, giftable box set! <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e Quill Tree Books; Reprint edition (December 27, 2011)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 240 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0060760907
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0060760908
Reading age \u200f : \u200e 9 – 11 years, from customers
Lexile measure \u200f : \u200e 750L
Grade level \u200f : \u200e 3 – 7
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.12 x 0.48 x 7.62 inches <\/p>\n

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Customers find the book very nice, well-written, and enjoyable. They say it has a lot of teachable moments about history and real world problems. Readers appreciate the poetic language and style. They also love the characters and the humor. They describe the story as heartwarming, touching, and heartbreakingly real.<\/span><\/p>\n

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