One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Contributor(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060760893 ISBN-13: 9780060760892 Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Binding Type: Library Binding - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2010 |
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: 0.85" H x 5.88" W x 8.34" L (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, Nominee, Grades 4-8, 2013 Georgia Children's Book Award, Nominee, Children's Book, 2012 North Carolina Children's Book Award, Nominee, Junior Book, 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award, Nominee, Intermediate, 2013 Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee, Grades 6-9, 2011 Volunteer State Book Awards, Nominee, Middle School, 2012 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Winner, Historical Fiction, 2011 Land of Enchantment Book Award, Nominee, Children's, 2012 West Virginia Children's Book Award, Nominee, Children's, 2012 Sequoyah Book Awards, Nominee, Intermediate, 2013 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Nominee, Grades 3-5, 2014 Newbery Medal, Honor Book, Children's, 2011 Coretta Scott King Award, Winner, Author, 2011 National Book Awards, Finalist, Young People's Lit., 2010 Rhode Island Children's Book Awards, Nominee, Grades 3-6, 2012 Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up), Gold Medal Winner, Fiction, 2010 |
Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2010 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 Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2010 pg. 12 Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/08/2010 pg. 35 SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2010 pg. 34 Entertainment Weekly 11/14/2014 pg. 111 |
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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