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Williams-Garcia, Rita

One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia. - First edition. - 218 pages ; 22 cm.

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

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ISBN: 9780060760885 0060760885 9780060760892 0060760893

LCCN: 2009009293

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Black Panther Party--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sisters--Juvenile fiction
Mothers--Juvenile fiction.
Poets--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction
Civil rights movements--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.W6713 / On 2010

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]