One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the award-winning story of three girls, Delphine, Fern, and Vonetta, who travel to Oakland, California to reunite with their runaway mother, Cecile. Throughout the novel, the young girls are thrust into the very real world of politics in the 1960s; through all of their adventures, they learn a lot about themselves, their family, as well as the world around them.
This is an important novel because it discusses big historical movements that are relevant to the world today. Kids get an intimate perspective of life in 1960s America and relate to themes of family, politics, and power.
Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Book Award &
a 2011 Newbery Honor Book
Genre: Historical Fiction
Themes: Divorce, 1960s America, Civil Rights Movement, African American, Siblings
Interest Level: Grades 4-7, Ages 8-12
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