One crazy summer
Call Number
- J WILL (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Amistad, c2010.
Physical Description
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience
Grades 4-7.
Summary
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters, Fern and Vonetta, arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, Cecile, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Subjects
- Abandoned children > Fiction.
- African American girls > Fiction.
- Sisters > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- African American women poets > Fiction.
- African Americans > California > Oakland > Fiction.
- Civil rights movements > Fiction.
- Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. > Fiction.
- Oakland (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Black Panther Party > Fiction.