One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner, (Hardcover)

from 4sarad

I thought this was a really interesting book, but it has been a hard-sell for students. It was a little slow in the beginning and hard to get into. The girls are great characters, though, and you really see them grow throughout the story. This would be a historical fiction novel to introduce the ...

from jennybeast

Deftly written story of the 3 Gaither sisters, Delphine, Vonetta and Fern, as they travel to Oakland to meet their mother in a time of revolution and unrest. It's a powerful examination of love and abandonment, a moving portrait of a city and a people in the midst of fury over civil rights, and, ...

from kimby365

I'll start this review off with some more honesty: I was determined not to like this book. Not that I wanted to point out and nitpick at every single flaw of it, really, but I didn't want to feel any particular fondness towards it. After all, I'd picked my personal favorite for the 2011 Newbery M...

from Whisper1

It is stunningly, superbly written. It impact haunts long after the last page is read. Eleven year old Delphine has a story to tell, unsure of the ending, she is ever ready to vocalize her thoughts and feelings. She is upset, confused, angry, spunky and self righteous. Her mother Cecile left seve...

from bell7

One summer in the late sixties, Delphine and her sisters, Vonetta and Fern, fly to Oakland to visit their mother, Cecile, who left them when Fern was just a baby. The girls have grown up in Brooklyn with their grandmother and father raising them, and eleven-year-old Delphine had to grow up fast. ...