One crazy summer /
by Rita Williams-Garcia.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- New York : Amistad, 2012, c2010.
- 218, 13 p. ; 20 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.
A Junior Library Guild selection. Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011. Newbery Honor Book, 2011. National Book Award finalist, 2010.
9780060760908 (pbk.) 0060760907 (pbk.)
Black Panther Party--Juvenile fiction. Black Panther Party--Fiction.