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One Crazy Summer
Contributor(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita (Author)

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ISBN: 1613833857     ISBN-13: 9781613833858
Publisher: Turtleback Books
OUR PRICE: $18.53  

Binding Type: Prebound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 9-12
Grade Level: 4-7
Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.45 lbs) 218 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Cultural Region - Northern California
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - Oakland, California
Features: Ikids
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 135338
Reading Level: 4.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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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.

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. When they arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with her, 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 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.

Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. Be Eleven.

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