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One Crazy Summer

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One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction

Black Panther Party
Sisters
Mothers
Poets
1968

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. --Destiny Review

Hear the Author Read an Excerpt of One Crazy Summer at: http://www.teachingbooks.net/book_reading.cgi?id=4049&a=1

Rita Williams-Garcia Author’s website

Sally Wern Comport Illustrator’s website; cover art , Jacket Knack interview

Visit These Resource Links:

Black Panthers Wikipedia entry
1964 Brown University Scholarly Technology Group
Huey Newton
Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” Wikipedia entry
Brenda and the Tabulations “Dry Your Eyes”
Bobby Hutton Wikipedia entry
Reverend King The King Center website
Bobby Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
Merriam Webster Wikipedia entry
Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali
Mr. Bubble Bath Wikipedia entry
Eldridge Cleaver Wikipedia entry
H. Rap Brown Wikipedia entry
Ho Chi Minh Wikipedia entry