One crazy summer
(2010)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/FICTION/WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Amistad, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
218 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780060760892 (reinforced), 0060760893 (reinforced), 9780060760885 (trade bdg.), 0060760885 (trade bdg.), 9780060760908 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York : Amistad, 2012. 218 p
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 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
Winner of the 2011 Newbery Honor Book Award
Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award
Winner of the Fall 2010 Parent's Choice Gold Award for Fiction
Grades 4-7
750
750L
A Junior Library Guild selection
Winner of the 2011 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction