One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Book Award 2011 Newbery Honor Book. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them - an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.

Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. They move to a world unlike any they have known before, and a new way of life is unveiled to them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Start Free Trial Summary Questions & Answers Extended Summary PDF Cite Share Last Updated on June 1, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the story of three girls learning and growing. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. Be Eleven, won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, One Crazy Summer. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago.

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the first book in a trilogy about the Gaither sisters: Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern as they grow up during the.