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One Crazy Summer

by: Rita Williams-Garcia (author)

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Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award
A 2011 Newbery Honor Book
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 her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780545458283

Publish date: January 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages no: 218

Edition language: English

Category:

Young Adult, Childrens, Cultural, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, African American, Family, Chapter Books

Series: Gaither Sisters (#1)

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Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it

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Delphine is eleven, going on twelve and yet she is responsible for her two younger sisters. Their mother left when Fern, the youngest, was still a baby and they are being raised by their father and grandmother (Big Ma). One summer they fly to California to spend time with their mother. She is not wh...

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My Never Ending List rated it

13 years ago

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I was waiting for this book to deliver but it never did for me. With all the awards on the front and the whole list of awards and honors on the back of the book, I was waiting fireworks and a fantastic read but I was left disappointed. Who really hands out these awards?Yes, it was a crazy summer for...

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Saturdays in Books rated it

13 years ago

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Not genre, but so good.

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By Singing Light rated it

14 years ago

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Opening: "Good thing the plane had seat belts and we'd been strapped in tight before takeoff."It's the summer of 1968. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern have been sent to Oakland to meet their mother, who left the family just after Fern was born. It's a tense time for the world, a tense time for African-A...

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Nutti's muses rated it

14 years ago

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I loved this book. Delphine is 11 going on 12 flying out to see her mom in Oakland CA from Brooklyn. Her mother had left her and her sisters when her younger sister was just a baby. 1968 Oakland is a very different place than Brooklyn. Delphine and her sisters get fed breakfasts at the Black Pan...

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