Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
What a crazy summer indeed, especially for Delphine, Vonetta and Fern, three African American Brooklyn girls who travel to Oakland, California the summer of 1968 to visit their wayward mother, Cecile, who abandoned them years earlier. In Oakland, the girls must fend for themselves since Cecile is too busy with her poetry to be bothered by the girls' inconvenient visit. Each morning, Cecile sends the girls off to a center summer camp run by the Black Panthers for breakfast and to get the girls out of her way. Throughout their four week stay in Oakland, the three girls learn about the "cause", freedom, revolution, social and civic responsibility, the Black Panther movement, friendship, and loyalty. However, will they ever get the chance to get to know their mother? Does Cecile even love them or what to get to know them? Will they be safe amidst all the chaos of the 1960s?
Lexile 750
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