{"product_id":"one-crazy-summer","title":"One Crazy Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare.*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleven-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, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of great kids' books with diverse characters, called it witty and original.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita Williams-Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46053169004613,"sku":"BS-LIB-864019","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9781432864019-HD.jpg?v=1792360557","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/one-crazy-summer","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}