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One crazy summer
Title:
One crazy summer
JLCTITLE245:
by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Personal Author:
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Edition:
1st edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Amistad, ©2010.
Physical Description:
218 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780060760885

9780060760892

9780606235556

9780060760908

9780329859367
Series:
Gaither Sisters ; 1
General Note:
Sequel: P.S. Be eleven.
Abstract:
In the summer of 1968, after traveling 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.
Reading Level:
Ages 9-12.

750L Lexile.

Grades 4-7.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Middle Grades 4.6 7.0 Quiz: 135338.

Reading Counts 3-5 4.6 11.0 Quiz: 48832.

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.6 7 Quiz 135338 English fiction.
Corporate Subject:
Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction.

Black Panther Party -- Fiction.
Subject Term:
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers -- Juvenile fiction.

Poets -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction.

Children's stories, American -- 21st century.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Fiction.

Poets -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Children's stories.

Newbery Medal: Honor book -- 2011.

Coretta Scott King Award (Author): Winner -- 2011.

History.

Juvenile works.

Historical fiction.

Novels.
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