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Name: One Crazy Summer : the Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Newbery Honor Book
Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
ISBN: [978-0-06-293559-5,0-06-293559-3]

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One Crazy Summer : the Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Newbery Honor Book

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita

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Follett Number: 2834SG0
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Quill Tree Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025
Availability: This item is scheduled to be available on May 6, 2025.
Format: 299 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-293559-5
ISBN-10: 0-06-293559-3
LCCN: 2024-945360
Dewey: 741.5
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Subjects:

African Americans Fiction

Black Panther Party Fiction

Civil Rights Movements Fiction

Comics Adaptations

Graphic Novels

Historical Comics

Mothers Fiction

Oakland (Calif.) History 20th Century Fiction

Poets Fiction

Sisters Fiction

"Ages 8-12"--Dust jacket. 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.

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"I wish I didn't know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland..." Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer. This beloved Newbery Honor Book, National Book Award finalist, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel about the three unforgettable Gaither sisters has been adapted into a beautiful full-color graphic novel for a new generation, with vibrant art by Sharee Miller.

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