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Book #1: One Crazy Summer

Author/Illustrator: Rita Williams-Garcia
Ages 9-13
Published Jan 26th, 2010
$ 1899 USD

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Seven years ago for a radical new life in California. When they arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with her, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.

This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist.

Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham will find much to love inOne Crazy Summer. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. Be Eleven.

Age Range:  9 - 12       

Grade:  4 - 7       Guided Reading Level:  W

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