One crazy summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia
Ages 9 - 12
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In 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

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