Bibliograph

One crazy summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Type

Label

One crazy summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

750L, Lexile

resource.interestGradeLevel

4-7

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

One crazy summer

Oclc number

319320797

Responsibility statement

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Summary

In the summer of 1968, after traveling 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

Table Of Contents

Cassius Clay clouds -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Secret agent mother -- Green stucco house -- Mean Lady Ming -- Collect call -- For the people -- Glass of water -- Inseparable -- Breakfast program -- Even the Earth is a revolutionary -- Crazy mother mountain -- Everyone knows the king of the sea -- Coloring and la-la -- Counting and skimming -- Big red S -- China who -- Expert colored counting -- Civic pride -- Rally for Bobby -- Eating crow -- Itsy bitsy spider -- Movable type -- San Francisco treat -- Wish we had a camera -- The Clark sisters -- I birthed a nation -- Stores of the no sayers -- Glorious hill -- The third thing -- So -- Be eleven -- Afua

Target audience

pre adolescent

Creator