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...
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...
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...
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...
Eleven-year-old Delphine is a complex character; she wants to be a kid, but has to act like an adult far too often. Her sisters and their interactions are so true and funny, and the historical setting was interesting. I'm glad this won some awards, yet I can't say it completely wowed me. A great add...
11/25/2010 - National Book Award Finalist; saw review on CCBC. The plot/setting sound interesting. This would be interesting to talk with Nicci about.1/12/2011 ** Well, now that this has won the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award, our library copy won't renew. If I want to read it, it...
I'll start this review off with some more honesty: I was determined not to like this book. Not that I wanted to point out and nitpick at every single flaw of it, really, but I didn't want to feel any particular fondness towards it. After all, I'd picked my personal favorite for the 2011 Newbery Meda...
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, leave Brookland and their Papa and grandmother (Big Ma) to travel to Oakland, CA to meet their mother. It's 1968, and Cecile lives in the black part of Oakland; she has a printing press, and she's a poet, and she has Black Panthers asking her to use her p...
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