One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Contributor(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060760885 ISBN-13: 9780060760885 Publisher: Quill Tree Books
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2009009293 |
Age Level: 8-12 |
Grade Level: 3-7 |
Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" L (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Nominee, Children's, 2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Ten to Fourteen, 2011 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, Nominee, Grades 4-6, 2012 National Book Awards, Finalist, Young People's Lit., 2010 |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/04/2010 pg. 47 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2010 New York Times Book Review 01/17/2010 pg. 12 New York Times Book Review 01/24/2010 pg. 18 Booklist 02/01/2010 pg. 61 Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2010 pg. 91 School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 170 Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2010 pg. 77 Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2010 - Recommended - Better Than Most Multicultural Review 08/01/2010 pg. 73 Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2011 pg. 13 SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2010 pg. 34 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 135338 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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--take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home. 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 P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Kendi's books. In One Crazy Summer, eleven-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 arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. 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. This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of great kids' books with diverse characters, called it witty and original. This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare, commented Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich in her Brightly article Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita: - Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, P.S. Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers. She is also the author of six distinguished novels for young adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book), and Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults); Blue Tights; and Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, and has two adult daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, and a son-in-law, Adam. |
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