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Williams-Garcia, Rita.

One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Amistad, 2012, c2010. - 218, 13 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes "Extras": an excerpt from the author's acceptance speech for the Coretta Scott King award, a deleted chapter from the novel, and extras and activities.

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.

Ages 9-12.

A Junior Library Guild selection. Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011. Newbery Honor Book, 2011. National Book Award finalist, 2010. Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

ISBN: 9780060760908 (pbk.) 0060760907 (pbk.) 9781451742664 (Paw Prints) 1451742665 (Paw Prints)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Black Panther Party--Juvenile fiction.
Black Panther Party--Fiction.
Black Panther Party.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers--Juvenile fiction.
Poets--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Poets--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African Americans.
Civil rights movements.
Mothers.
Poets.
Sisters.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
California--Oakland.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.