One Crazy Summer

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.In a humorous and breakout book by Williams Garcia, the Penderwicks meet the Black Panthers. Free Download One Crazy Summer Author Rita Williams-Garcia For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I do not ordinarily read middle grade books unless I am sharing them with my grandson, but I was drawn to this beautiful book initially because of its subject matter children in Oakland during the early days of the Black Panther Party But this book is so muchthan its historical setting I fell head over heels in love with the narrator of this book, Delphine, and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern With a group here on Goodreads, I recently reread the wonderful short story collection I do not ordinarily read ...When I heard that teen author Rita Williams Garcia had written a middle grade novel for kids I wasn t moved one way or another I don t read teen books Couldn t say I knew much of the woman s work When I heard that her book was about the Black Panthers, however, my interest was piqued Black Panthers, eh The one political group so difficult to write about that you can t find them in a single children s book aside from The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, of course So what was her take When I heard that teen author Rita Williams Garcia had written a middle grade novel for kids I wasn t moved one way or another I don t read teen books Couldn t say I knew much of the woman s work When I heard that her book was about the Black Panthers, however, my interest was piqued Black Panthers, eh The one political group so difficult to write about that you can t find them in a single children s book aside from The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, of course So what was her take How was she going to do it But the thing...Well, that gave me a whole lotta feels.Important topic YesWriting FabulousCharacters EngagingNewbery material Well, I suppose since adults are the ones to vote, then yes Probably But if kids were voting, I m not sure this book would make the Newbery radar I started reading it to my kids and ended up finishing it myself Normally when kids have an awful, self centered mother or parent figure in children s literature, there is a candy house or 7 little men to make up for it Not so in this book Cecile never seemed to come Important topic YesWriting FabulousCharacters EngagingNewbery material Well, I suppose since adults are the ones to vote, then yes Probably But if kids were voting, I m not sure this book would make the Newbery radar I started reading it to my kids and ended up finishing it myself Normally when kids have an awful, self centered mother or parent figure in children s literature, there is a candy house or 7 little men to make up...It s 1968, and 11 year old Delphine Gaither has her hands full playing mother to her two little sisters, 9 year old Vonetta, and 7 year old Fern She lives in Brooklyn with her father and his prim, old fashioned mother, called Big Ma Where s the girls mother Cecile Johnson abandoned the family before Delphine turned 5 Now Pa thinks the three Gaither girls should spend a month this summer with their long lost mother in Oakland, California And it will be one crazy summer.You see, Cecile, now It s 1968, and 11 year old Delphine Gaither has her hands full playing mother to her two little sisters, 9 year old Vonetta, and 7 year old Fern She lives in Brooklyn with her father and his prim, old fashioned mother, called Big Ma Where s the girls mother Cecile Johnson abandoned the family before Delphine turned 5 Now Pa thinks the three Gaither girls should spend a month this summer with their long lost mother in Oakland, California And it will be one crazy summer.You see, Cecile, now going by therevolutionary name of Nzila, is muchdevoted to her poetry and the Black Panther led revolution than she is to her own family, in which she literally has no interest She shuffles the girls, used to a pretty staid existence in Brooklyn, off to a Black Panther summer camp to keep them out of her way Serious, self sacrificing Delphin...This is one of those onechapter and then I l clean the kitchen, throw some clothes in the washer, take a shower, etc kind of books I loved it I think Rita Williams Garcia is a fantastic writer and she derserves all the awards and honors she got for this book This is the first book of hers book I ve read but it won t be the last The story is fascinating 3 girls travel to California during the summer of 1968 to stay with the mother who abandoned them years before and the This is one of those onechapter and then I l clean the kitchen, throw some clothes in the washer, take a shower, etc kind of books I loved it I think Rita Williams Garcia is a fantastic writer and she derserves all the awards and honors she got for this book This is the first book of hers book I ve read but it won t be the las...I have mixed feelings about this book It does several things successfully Sister relationships, kids who have to take on extra responsibility at a young age, homeless teens, and political action in America in the 1960s And all within a palatable mid elementary storyline I worry, though, that kids far removed from that time and place will somehow get the picture that the black panthers condoned abandoning your children The panther characters in this book seem angry, dogmatic, and tone deaf I have mixed feelings about this book It does several things successfully Sister relationships, kids who have to take on extra responsibility at a young age, homeless teens, and political action in America in the 1960s And all within a palatable mid elementary storyline I worry, though, that kids far removed from that time and place will somehow get the picture that the black panthers condoned abandoning your children The panther characters in this book seem angry, dogmatic, and tone deaf to the needs of the actual people in front of them other than food The reasons for their political movement and the history behind them are only briefly touched upon The ending also implies that everything is now okay Delphine s mother may have tol...Wow, what a trip, as we used to say back in 68 Did this ever bring me back to the summer of 1968 I was not an African American eleven year old girl visiting Oakland, but I was a fourteen year old white Jewish girl across the bay living in San Francisco There was a chapter that takes place in San Francisco.So, the author got one thing wrong about Oakland no, there are no hills at all in that part of town and maybe one thing about San Francisco wrong I don t think there were palm trees in Wow, what a trip, as we used to say back in 68 Did this ever bring me back to the summer of 1968 I was not an African American eleven year old girl visiting Oakland, but I was a fourteen year old white Jewish girl across the bay living in San Francisco There was a chapter that takes place in San Francisco.So, the author got one thing wrong about Oakland no, there are no hills at all in that part of town and maybe one thing about San Francisco wrong I don t think there were palm trees in that location, but I could have just forgotten, I suppose Otherwise, much of the locale and time period seemed...loved it fun read and perfect for young girls and boys i wish i had this kind of book when i was a kid but i m content knowing that my daughter does by the end, as an adult reader, i had the warm fuzzies.I am reviewing the author instead of the book.Rita Williams Garcia is deeply committed to her work and her readers I offered this book to my students because it had strong reviews and my students seemed interested in it When we started reading it, my 6th grade students raised some questions about the words colored, black, and Negro that appear in the book I answered the questions as best I could, but then I thought, hey, what does the author think these words mean I searched for I am reviewing the author instead of the book.Rita Williams Garcia is deeply committed to her work and her readers I offered this book to my students because it had strong reviews and my students seemed interested in it When we started reading it, my 6th grade students raised some questions about the words colored, black, and Negro that appear in the book I answered the questions as best I could, but then I thought, hey, what does the author think these words mean I searched for Williams Garcia s contact info, and eventually came up with an aol address that was prefaced by a warning not to trouble her with your book reports I wrote her an email about the situation, but my hopes were not high, given my previous failure to contact my childhood hero Daniel Pinkwater through his website and having Kate DiCamillo ignore my question about the Despair Squid from the British SF show Red Dwarf.Williams Garcia is passionate about the issues in her books, ...

• English
• 11 October 2019
Rita Williams-Garcia
• Hardcover
• 224 pages
• 0060760885
• Rita Williams-Garcia
• One Crazy Summer