One crazy summer / by Rita Williams-Garcia.
by Williams-Garcia, Rita.
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BookPublisher: New York : Amistad, c2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: 218 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0060760885.Subject(s): Black Panther Party -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | Mothers -- Fiction | Poets -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Civil rights movements -- Fiction | Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: 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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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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