One crazy summer

Resource Information

The work One crazy summer represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Syracuse Turkey Creek Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

One crazy summer

Statement of responsibility

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Creator

• Williams-Garcia, Rita
• Williams-Garcia, Rita
• trueWilliams-Garcia, Rita

Subject

• Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGirls
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueMother-deserted children
• trueMothers
• Mothers -- Fiction
• Mothers -- Fiction
• Mothers -- Juvenile fiction
• Mothers -- Juvenile fiction
• Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• trueOakland, California
• truePoets
• Poets -- Fiction
• Poets -- Fiction
• Poets -- Juvenile fiction
• Poets -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSisters
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSummer camps
• true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueAfrican American girls
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBlack Panther Party
• Black Panther Party -- Fiction
• Black Panther Party -- Fiction
• Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCalifornia
• trueCivil Rights Movement
• Civil rights movements -- Fiction
• Civil rights movements -- Fiction
• Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction
• Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction
• trueEleven-year-old girls
• trueFirst person narratives

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In the summer of 1968, after travelling 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

Member of

• trueGaither sisters
• Gaither sisters, 01

Theme

• trueMeet the family

Storyline

• trueOwn voices
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueStylistically complex

Character

• trueWell-developed
• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2011
• Amelia Bloomer List, 2011
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2010
• Coretta Scott King Award, Author Category, 2011.
• School Library Journal Best Books: 2010
• Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, 2011.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2010.

Awards note

• A Junior Library Guild selection
• Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2011.
• Newbery Honor Book, 2011.
• National Book Award finalist, 2010
• Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Cataloging source

NYP

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Ages 9-12
• 750L

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.W6713

LC item number

On 2012

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750

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Series statement

Gaither sisters

Series volume

0001

Target audience

juvenile