One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel

(W) Sharee Miller, Rita Williams-Garcia (A) Sharee Miller. The Newbery Honor Book* National Book Award finalist* and Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel about the three unforgettable Gaither sisters* now adapted into a beautiful full-color graphic novel with vibrant art by Sharee Miller. 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. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland* Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell* their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly* Delphine* Vonetta* and Fern learn much about their family* their country* and themselves during one truly crazy summer.