One Crazy Summer is a historical children’s novel by Rita Williams-Garcia. Set during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California, the narrative follows the lives of the Gaither sisters, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, as they visit with their mother who abandoned them some seven years before. One Crazy Summer explores themes of family, racism, childhood, and counterculture.
"Focusing her attention on contemporary African American youth," writes Susan P. Bloom in Twentieth-Century Young Adult Writers, "Rita Williams- Garcia informs her fictional teenagers with her own exp...
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