One Crazy Summer

<p><strong>In this Newbery Honor novel <em>New York Times</em> 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.</strong></p><p>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 <em>P.S. Be Eleven</em> and <em>Gone Crazy in Alabama</em>.</p><p>Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's <em>The Watsons Go to Birmingham </em>and Jacqueline Woodson's <em>Brown Girl Dreaming </em>will find much to love in <em>One Crazy Summer. </em>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.</p><p>In <em>One Crazy Summer </em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo in a <em>New York Times</em> list of great kids' books with diverse characters called it witty and original.</p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>Rita Williams-Garcia is one of the preeminent authors of our time. She has been honored with the Children's Literature Lecture Award from the American Library Association.</p><br/>