One crazy summer /
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. - 1st ed. - New York : Amistad, c2010. - 218 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2011.
9780060760885 (trade bdg.) 9780060760892 (lib. bdg.)
2009009293
Black Panther Party--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Poets--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PZ7.W6713 / On 2010
[Fic]
One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. - 1st ed. - New York : Amistad, c2010. - 218 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2011.
9780060760885 (trade bdg.) 9780060760892 (lib. bdg.)
2009009293
Black Panther Party--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Poets--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PZ7.W6713 / On 2010
[Fic]