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One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. |
| Authors: | Williams-Garcia, Rita. |
| Call number: | jFIC WIL |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : Amistad, c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
Sisters -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Fiction. Poets -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Civil rights movements -- Fiction. Juvenile literature. Black Panther Party -- Fiction. Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. |
| Title: | One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 218 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Target audience note: | Grades 4-7. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2012-2013, 4-6 Nominee. A Junior Library Guild selection |
| ISBN: | 9780060760892 (reinforced) : 0060760893 (reinforced) : 9780060760885 (trade bdg.) 0060760885 (trade bdg.) 9780060760908 |
| LCCN: | 2009009293 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1233655 |
| Bib No.: | 1233655 |