Books Details
Author : Rita Williams-Garcia Pages : 240 pages Publisher : Quill Tree
Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0060760907 ISBN-13 : 9780060760908
Books Descriptions
There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.Winner of the
2011 Coretta Scott King Author AwardA 2011 Newbery Honor BookEleven-
year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile,
abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years
ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to
Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though
Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth
about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in
the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes
them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and
never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock
on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine,
Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group,
the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set
