Middle-grade novel · Fiction
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
About the book
In 1968, three sisters travel to Oakland to spend the summer with the mother who left them, and attend a Black Panther summer camp.
Reading notes
Historical fiction with humor and heart about family and the civil-rights era; involves a mother who left her daughters and the Black Panther movement.
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Recognition
- Newbery Honor (2011)
- Coretta Scott King Author Award (2011)
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Book details
- Author
- Rita Williams-Garcia
- First published
- 2010
- Suggested ages
- Ages 9–13 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Independent reader
- Topics
- civil rights, family, 1960s
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780060760908 · Amistad, Dec 27, 2011 · paperback
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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