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Williams-Garcia, Rita.
One crazy summer/Rita Williams-Garcia.—1st ed.
p. cm.
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 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.
ISBN 978-0-06-076088-5 (trade bdg.)—ISBN 978-0-06-076089-2 (lib. bdg.)
[1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Mothers—Fiction. 3. Poets—Fiction. 4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Black Panther Party—Fiction. 6. Civil rights movements—Fiction. 7. Oakland (Calif.)—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W6713On 2010 2009009293
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 9780061966675
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