One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Taste attributes: historicalfamilypoliticalfresh & originalwholesomesimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipcoming of agesocial commentary
Boxlist takeWholesome and contained: a historical novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: wholesome · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer.
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- Author
- Rita Williams-Garcia
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 221
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