Did I get your attention? Well, I hope so! This is actually the title of the first book that I read this summer. I chose it because it has received the following accolades:
... Wow! I also thought that the title made it a good place to start. One Crazy Summer was written by Rita Williams-Garcia. The story takes place in 1968 and tells of three African American sisters who leave Brooklyn to visit their mother in Oakland, California for the summer. They live with their father and grandmother and the trip to California is strangely disconserting since their mother abandoned them many years earlier. When the girls arrive in California, their mother does not greet them as one would expect and the story leads the reader through a tumultuous relationship and an interesting summer camp run by the Black Panthers. Check out this book and take some time to research the true events surrounding this time period.
2011 Coretta Scott King Award Winner
2011 Newbery Honor Book
2011 Scott O’Dell Prize for Historical Fiction
2010 National Book Award Finalist
Junior Library Guild Selection
Texas Library Association Best Book for 2010
