One crazy summer
By Rita Williams Garcia
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Amistad; Reprint edition (5 Jan. 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060760907
ISBN-13: 9780060760908
Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.2 x 19.4 cm
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In 1968, Daphne, an 11 year old girl, took her two sisters to Oakland, California, to live with her mother who abandoned them. The girls are full of all kinds of fantasies about their mother, kind smiles, warm arms, delicious meals, happy Disney trip... However, her mother doesnt seem to want to have anything to do with them. She only cares about her work and leaves them in a Panther Party summer camp. In this unforgettable summer, the girls gradually understood their mother and found themselves. Humorous, kind and childlike, Daphne looked at the changes of history and the differences between blacks and whites in a childs way, understood what social change is and the meaning of family. She told young readers that people should listen to their hearts, not propaganda slogans or dogma orders.
About the author
Rita Williams-Garcias 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 ODell 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 Childrens 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 Childrens 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.
