One Crazy Summer
By Rita Williams-Garcia
This
is the story of an incredibly mature 11-year-old Delphine, who, along with her
two younger sisters, is being sent from Brooklyn by their father, to spend time
with their estranged mother in Oakland, California. The younger girls don't
remember their mother and don't know that she abandoned them, so they are
excited to be visiting, and are certain she will welcome them with open arms. Instead
of taking her children to Disneyland as they had hoped, Cecile shoos them off
to the neighborhood People's Center, run by members of the Black Panthers.
Delphine doesn't buy into all of the group's ideas, but she does come to
understand her mother a little better over the summer.
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia
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