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Pesky behavior just goes with the sibling turf. Still, we see how immature and petty Vonetta can be (mostly due to her age) since Delphine is so much more mature than her. Vonetta's also sensitive. She gets hurt easily because she opens herself up to people all the time—as Delphine explains, "Vonetta's feelings got hurt because she was always ...
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Fern. Sassy, strong, and assertive, Fern is a forced to be...
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Fern. Sassy, strong, and assertive, Fern is a forced to be reckoned with for a little kid. She'll tell anybody off, even Crazy Kelvin. When she catches him double-crossing the Black Panthers, she wastes...
Cecile explains this to the girls: "My name is Nzila. Nzila is a poet's name. My poems blow the dust off surfaces to make clear and true paths. Nzila." (12.10) This name change is a way for Cecile to connect with her new identity. As Nzila, she is a revolutionary poet; as Cecile, she's a woman who up and left her kids one day, disappearing ...
One Crazy Summer. 9780060760885 (trade bdg.) One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010. The novel is about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, visiting their mother in Oakland, California, during the summer of 1968. [2]
- Rita Williams-Garcia
- 2010
One day, Vonetta's "cool" new friends harass Fern about Miss Patty Cake. This time, Vonetta does not stick up for her sister, and that night, she takes a permanent marker and defaces Fern's doll ...
Feb 25, 2011 · One Crazy Summer. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. Delphine, Vonetta and Fern have been raised by their father and grandmother in Brooklyn. But the summer Delphine is eleven, the girls venture out to Oakland to spend time with the mother who abandoned them when they were small. If they were expecting any mothering, they soon learn they ...
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One Crazy Summer is a children's novel and work of historical fiction by Rita Williams-Garcia. Published in 2010, this novel is the first in Williams-Garcia's Gaither Sisters series; two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were published in 2013 and 2015, respectively. One Crazy Summer tells the story of sisters Delphine, Vonetta ...
