One crazy summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
- New York,NY Amistad 2010
- 218 + 13 p. 20 cm
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend the 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.
978-0-06-076090-8
Sisters--Fiction Mothers--Fiction Poets--Fiction African Americans--Fiction Black Panther Party--Fiction Civil rights movement--Fiction Oakland (Calif)--History--Fiction--20th century