{"product_id":"one-crazy-summer-book-rita-williams-garcia-9780060760885","title":"One Crazy Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. A strong option for summer reading--take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders 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. 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. Kendi's books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of \"great kids' books with diverse characters,\" called it \"witty and original.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49565580755217,"sku":"CIN0060760885G","price":4.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49664423100689,"sku":"GOR004117545","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49959748239633,"sku":"CIN0060760885VG","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49989461672209,"sku":"CIN0060760885A","price":3.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50669613973777,"sku":"GOR004613396","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50998881747217,"sku":"NIN9780060760885","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0060760885.jpg?v=1750908107","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/one-crazy-summer-book-rita-williams-garcia-9780060760885","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}