One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia2011 Newbery Honor Book
Great book! Delphine and her sisters get shipped off to live with the mother that abandoned them in the summer. They get a frosty reception, and get sent to a Black Panthers day camp every day to stay out of Cecile's hair. They make up their own minds how they feel about their mother, as well as the proper way to fight their own black revolution.
(from jacket cover)
Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes the 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. 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.
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.
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