
Delphine's growing awareness of injustice on a personal and universal level is smoothly woven into the story in poetic language that will stimulate and move readers. Delphine doesn't buy into all of the group's ideas, but she does come to understand her mother a little better over the summer.

Instead of taking her children to Disneyland as they had hoped, Cecile shoos them off to the neighborhood People's Center, run by members of the Black Panthers. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Tall, dark brown woman in man's pants whose face was half hidden by a scarf, hat, and big dark shades. Read One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia with a free trial.

The book also had a lot of poetic language in it and that really stood out to me because it made the book way more interesting and intriguing. When Cecile picks them up at the airport, she is as unconventional as Delphine remembers (“There was something uncommon about Cecile. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is a fantastic book, It has very funny and lovable characters, they were unforgettable to me and are really one of my favorite book characters ever. In One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. Through lively first-person narrative,readers meet Delphine, whose father sends her and her two younger sisters to Oakland, Calif., to visit their estranged mother, Cecile. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. ) evokes the close-knit bond between three sisters, and the fervor and tumultuousness of the late 1960s, in this period novel featuring an outspoken 11-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y.
