Author:Rita Williams-Garcia
Title: One Crazy Summer
Illustrator: No Illustrations
Genre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Struggles in the 60s
Primary and Secondary Characters: Delphine, Vonetta, Fern, and Cecile
Awards: Coretta Scott King Award, Newberry Honor Book, Scott O'Dell Prize
Publishing Company: HarperCollins
How you would use with your students and brief summary: This is a book about an 11 year old girl named Delphine whose mother had happened here and her sisters 7 years ago. One summer her dad and grandmother send her and her sisters to live with her mom and find out the things that made their mom leave. This book has real life struggles of things that occurred in the late 60s and it would be good to use with the students to show them what went on back then.
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