One Crazy Summer Sparknotes
One Crazy Summer The book I read was One Crazy Summer, this is a historical fiction book, which took place in 1968 when America was in an uproar toward the African Americans. This book is about 3 African American ittle girls named, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, who live with their grandparents. The 3 girls have arranged to go see their mother, Cecile in Oakland, California, who abandoned them as babies. As they arrived in Oakland, California, and see their mother for the first time, they are very excited but the mother does not show any expression, whatsoever, and says that she got rid of them for a reason, and does not care to have a relationship with her 3 little girls. As they arrive to Cecile's house Cecile says “do not go in the kitchen,
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One afternoon the girls start sneaking around the kitchen and find that the mother is creating counterfeit money, which is fake money. They then call their grandparents in Brooklyn, and ask to come home because this was not the trip they expected, they grandmother refuses. The girls stick around and find themselves actually having fun, they one day are at a Chinese restaurant getting takeout, with their moms money, and see an African American with an afro, and kind of scary looking, as described in the book, they then realize it is a Black Panther. Black Panthers were a gang in Oakland California, who were there to protect the African Americans, they also would always try and create community based programs for the African American children to have something to do during the summer, or maybe even after school. The three little girls start going to a free breakfast which after words has a summer camp, which they end up going to that is held by black panthers. The girls soon become closer with their mom than at the beginning, and figure out that she writes poems, and her poet name is Nzila, she once wrote a poem named “I Birthed a Nation”. Towards the end of the summer the summer camp is having a talent show/ recital, the girls have entered and don't really
One afternoon the girls start sneaking around the kitchen and find that the mother is creating counterfeit money, which is fake money. They then call their grandparents in Brooklyn, and ask to come home because this was not the trip they expected, they grandmother refuses. The girls stick around and find themselves actually having fun, they one day are at a Chinese restaurant getting takeout, with their moms money, and see an African American with an afro, and kind of scary looking, as described in the book, they then realize it is a Black Panther. Black Panthers were a gang in Oakland California, who were there to protect the African Americans, they also would always try and create community based programs for the African American children to have something to do during the summer, or maybe even after school. The three little girls start going to a free breakfast which after words has a summer camp, which they end up going to that is held by black panthers. The girls soon become closer with their mom than at the beginning, and figure out that she writes poems, and her poet name is Nzila, she once wrote a poem named “I Birthed a Nation”. Towards the end of the summer the summer camp is having a talent show/ recital, the girls have entered and don't really