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©2010
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218 pages, 13 pages ; 20 cm
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Includes "Extras": an excerpt from the author's acceptance speech for the Coretta Scott King award, a deleted chapter from the novel, and extras and activities
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
750
Ages 9-12
750L
A Junior Library Guild selection
Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011
Newbery Honor Book, 2011
National Book Award finalist, 2010
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction