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One crazy summer
- Author
- Williams-Garcia, Rita.
- Title
- One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York, NY : Amistad, c2010.
- Description
- 218 p. ; 22 cm.
- Notes
- I-UNIVLIB copy 2: Curriculum Resource Materials.
- Summary
- 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.
- Target audience
- Grades 4-7.
- Awards
- A Junior Library Guild selection Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011 Newbery Honor Book, 2011 National Book Award, Young People's Literature, finalist, 2010
- Subject headings
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780060760892 (reinforced) : 0060760893 (reinforced) : 9780060760885 (trade bdg.) 0060760885 (trade bdg.)
Holdings
- Library
- Blmgtn - Education Library
- Call Number
- FIC WIL
- Location
- Education Library - Children's Collection
- Library
- Indpls - IUPUI University Library
- Call Number
- PZ7.W6714 On 2010
- Location
- Juvenile
- Floor
- 2nd Floor