One Crazy Summer

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author AwardA 2011 Newbery Honor BookEleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay….Read More

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