{"product_id":"9780060760908","title":"One Crazy Summer (Newbery Honor Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this Newbery Honor novel, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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 \u003ci\u003eP.S. Be Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGone Crazy in Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's \u003ci\u003eThe Watsons Go to Birmingham \u003c\/i\u003eand Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003ewill find much to love in \u003ci\u003eOne Crazy Summer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel was the first featured title for Marley D’s Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e list of \"great kids' books with diverse characters,\" called it \"witty and original.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e*Brightly.com, in Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's article \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958725005552,"sku":"9780060760908","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060760908_p0.jpg?v=1769887570","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060760908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}