04048cam a2200409 4500 463267406 TxAuBib 20201218120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780061966675 0061966673 B00338QF4Q Amazon 7e8ec548-086a-4fe0-8edd-dd516896486c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 305524 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Williams-Garcia, Rita. One Crazy Summer [Libby] : One Crazy Summer Series, Book 1. Quill Tree Books, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1181kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. African American Fiction. Juvenile Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p><strong>In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times 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 P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama.</p> <p>Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. 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 One Crazy Summer, 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 New York Times 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>. Media Type: eBook. Newbery Honor Book. National Book Award Finalist. Coretta Scott King Book Award. Notable Children's Books. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-18 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/7E8/EC5/48/OneCrazySummer9780061966675.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7E8EC548-086A-4FE0-8EDD-DD516896486C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/7E8/EC5/48/OneCrazySummer9780061966675.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7E8EC548-086A-4FE0-8EDD-DD516896486C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/7E8/EC5/48/OneCrazySummer9780061966675.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7E8EC548-086A-4FE0-8EDD-DD516896486C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)