One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Book Overview

In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times 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. A strong option for summer reading--take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.

This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060760907
• ISBN13: 9780060760908
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Young readers!

This book, along with the other three books of the series, follows three sisters (Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern) as they go to Oakland, California to visit their long lost mother Cecile. The book is told from the point of view of the oldest sister (11 year old Delphine) as the sisters get acquainted with their mother who is not most maternal person. I think that this book is very good for young readers, especially girls ages 9 and up.