One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Paperback by Rita Williams-Garcia Original English books

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia Paperback: 240 Pages Publisher: Amistad; Heavy Printing Former (2012 nian 1 yue 5 ri) Language: English Product Size: 13 × 1.2 × 19.4cm In 1968, Daphne, an 11-Year-Old Girl, Took Her Two Sisters to Auckland, California, to Live with Her Mother Who Abandoned Them That Year. The Girls Are Full of All Kinds of Fantasies to Their Mothers, Such as a Kind Smile, a Warm Embrace, Appetizing Meals, a Happy Trip to Disney...... However, It Seemed That Mother Didn't Want to Have Anything to Do with Them. She Only Cared about Her Work and Left Them in a Black Panther Party Summer Camp. In This Unforgettable Summer Day, the Girls Gradually Understood Their Mother and Found Themselves.Humorous, Kind and Childlike, Daphne Treated the Changes of History in the Way of Children, the Differences between Black and White, Understood What Social Changes Are, and Also Understood the Meaning of Family. She Told the Little Readers That People Should Follow Their Own Hearts, Not Propaganda Slogans Or Dogmatic Orders.Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, P.S. Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers. She is also the author of six distinguished novels for young adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book), and Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults); Blue Tights; and Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, and has two adult daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, and a son-in-law, Adam.