One Crazy Summer

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. When the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer of 1968 with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. Cecile sends the girls to a day camp run by the Black Panther Party. There, the sisters learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.
This moving, funny Newbery Honor—winning novel also won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the Coretta Scott King Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist.