One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is actually a book written for adolescents. It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book and a National Book Award finalist for best children's book. It is about three African-American sisters who leave their home in Brooklyn where they live with their father and grandmother to spend the summer of 1968 in Oakland with their mother who left them just after the birth of the youngest. The mother is a poet and a supporter of the Black Panther movement. She leads a very independent life and sends the girls to the summer day camp operated by that group. The girls try to understand their mother's distance, make new friends, spend a day exploring San Francisco, and learn to appreciate their Black heritage. Best of all, though, they can be hilarious! By the end of the book you will feel that you know and love them, and you will hate to let go of them yourselves. I give the book 4 stars out of 5.
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