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One crazy summer : the graphic novel  Cover Image Book Book

One crazy summer : the graphic novel / by Rita Williams-Garcia ; illustrated by Sharee Miller.

Summary:

Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062935595 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 299 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, [2025]
Subject: Black Panther Party > Juvenile fiction.
Sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers > Juvenile fiction.
Poets > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements > Juvenile fiction.
Cartoons and comics.
Oakland (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Historical comics.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • B & T Entertainment
    When sisters Delphine, Vonetta and Fern arrive in Oakland, California, to visit their mother who’d left them seven years ago, they hoped to visit Disneyland and instead are sent to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Simultaneous. Illustrations.
  • HARPERCOLL

    “I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland…”

    Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California.

    But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers.

    Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.

    This beloved Newbery Honor Book, National Book Award finalist, and Coretta Scott King Award–winning novel about the three unforgettable Gaither sisters has been adapted into a beautiful full-color graphic novel for a new generation, with vibrant art by Sharee Miller.


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