One crazy summer

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Location	Collection	Call #
Bethel Park Public Library	Juvenile Audio/Visual	juv CD WILLIAMS-GARCIA Rita
Location	Bethel Park Public Library
Collection	Juvenile Audio/Visual
Call Number	juv CD WILLIAMS-GARCIA Rita

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Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "*Starred Review* Eleven-year-old Delphine has only a few fragmented memories of her mother, Cecile, a poet who wrote verses on walls and cereal boxes, played smoky jazz records, and abandoned the family in Brooklyn after giving birth to her third daughter. In the summer of 1968, Delphine's father decides that seeing Cecile is something whose time had come, and Delphine boards a plane with her sisters to Cecile's home in Oakland. What they find there is far from their California dreams of Disneyland and movie stars. No one told y'all to come out here, Cecile says. No one wants you out here making a mess, stopping my work. Like the rest of her life, Cecile's work is a mystery conducted behind the doors of the kitchen that she forbids her daughters to enter. For meals, Cecile sends the girls to a Chinese restaurant or to the local, Black Panther-run community center, where Cecile is known as Sister Inzilla and where the girls begin to attend youth programs. Regimented, responsible, strong-willed Delphine narrates in an unforgettable voice, but each of the sisters emerges as a distinct, memorable character, whose hard-won, tenuous connections with their mother build to an aching, triumphant conclusion. Set during a pivotal moment in African American history, this vibrant novel shows the subtle ways that political movements affect personal lives; but just as memorable is the finely drawn, universal story of children reclaiming a reluctant parent's love.--Engberg, Gillian Copyright 2010 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Williams-Garcia (Jumped) 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. 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. When Cecile picks them up at the airport, she is as unconventional as Delphine remembers ("There was something uncommon about Cecile. Eyes glommed onto her. Tall, dark brown woman in man's pants whose face was half hidden by a scarf, hat, and big dark shades. She was like a colored movie star"). 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. 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. 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. Ages 9-12. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Black Panther Party -- Juvenile fiction. Sisters -- Juvenile fiction. Mothers -- Juvenile fiction. Poets -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction. Oakland (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Children's audiobooks.
Publisher	Prince Frederick, Md. :Recorded Books,2010
Edition	Unabridged ed.
Contributors	Johnson, Sisi Aisha, narrator.
Participants/Performers	Narrated by Sisi Aisha Johnson.
Audience	Ages 9-12.
Language	English
Notes	Unabridged. Compact disc.
Description	5 audio discs (5 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN	9781449821968 1449821960
Other	Classic View