★ “Delphine is the pitch-perfect older sister, wise beyond her years, an expert at handling her siblings.while the girls are caught up in the difficulties of adults, their resilience is celebrated and energetically told with writing that snaps off the page.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) She has been honored with the Children's Literature Lecture Award from the American Library Association. Rita Williams-Garcia is one of the preeminent authors of our time. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare," commented Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich in her Brightly article "Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality." Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of "great kids' books with diverse characters," called it "witty and original." This novel was the first featured title for Marley D’s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer. 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. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. In One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. 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. A strong option for summer reading-take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home. In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them.
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