One Crazy Summer
1. Title- One Crazy Summer
2. Illustrator- Rita Williams-Garcia
3. Genre-Historical Fiction, Chapter Book
4. Subgenre-Realistic Fiction
5. Theme-City Life, Motherhood, People, Places, Environment, Communities, Changes, Families, and New Experiences.
6. Primary and secondary characters- Delphine
7. Award(s) date of publication- Coretta Scott King December 27, 2011
8. Publishing company- Aminstad
9. Brief summary and how you would use the book, with students- This was a great book and I would recommend it to anybody! This book takes place in the year 1968. In 1968 there were a lot of problems going on in the United States. Martin Luther King was shot in April, then Bobby Kennedy in June. Delphine and her sisters has came to Oakland, California to spend the summer with their mother who left them years ago. The mom was not interested in being a mother to them. Delphine started to compare how a mother bird would take care of her young birds. A mother bird would go and gather food, but her mom did not care if they got anything to eat. During the summer in Oakland, California Delphine and her sisters attended a summer camp. This summer camp was run by Black Panthers. They showed Delphine how to think or new ways of thinking about race and identity, community, and responsibility. Delphine starts to apply what she learned at summer camp. She compared and contrast about her sweet grandmother who took care of them. This story is about the hard ships faced through the families during the rough times of civil rights movement. This is a great book like I said. This book would be better for older kids and not younger. They would not understand the meaning I think. With this book I think I would do something about motherhood. I would get my students to write a compare and contrast story about mothers. They can tell about the different types of hardships faced during motherhood when researched. I love this book once again!
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