One Crazy Summer

Title: One Crazy Summer
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Genre: Historical Fiction

You will like this book if:

• You want to read a book with an easy reading level but is about a serious topic.
• You become frustrated because the expectations for you and your siblings are different.
• You are interested in the Black Panters.
• You like to read books that win awards.
• You know that having sisters can be embarassing, annoying, and fantastic.

You will not like this book if:

• You like to read books that challenge you.
• You prefer books that take place in current day.
• You don't like books that have mostly female characters.

Delphine is in for one crazy summer, surely is.  She and her sisters, Vonetta and Fern, are traveling from New York to visit the mother that left them nearly 8 years before.  Crazy, huh?  But then, the sisters quickly realize that their mother is crazy; she isn't excited to see her daughters, won't cook for them, and refuses to use one of the girl's names.  Crazy, right?  But then...Delphine's mother, Cecile, encourages the girls to go to a day camp run by the Black Panthers in her Oakland, California neighborhood.  This is an entertaining novel that illustrates how messy family dynamics can be, sheds light on the elusive group the Black Panthers, and shows how much one young girl can learn during a crazy summer. 
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