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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

By Liane Hicks

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the first book in a trilogy about the Gaither sisters: Delphine, Vonettam, and Fern as they grow up during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. They leave their loving father and grandmother in Brooklyn and travel to Oakland, California to spend a month with the mother they've never known.




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One Crazy Summer

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Students can identify quotes from One Crazy Summer that are important to them, making a literature connection with the story.

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  • QUOTE FROM ONE CRAZY SUMMER by Rita Williams-Garcia
  • This quote is poignant because it speaks to the fact that Black people were vastly under-represented in the media and other spaces (and still are). Delphine remarks that there were so few people that looked like her and her sisters on T.V. that they made a game out of counting them and keeping track of the amount of lines they had. It illustrates how important it is to feel represented in all aspects of society.
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  • "The Mike Douglas Show wasn't the only place to find [Black] people on television. Each week, Jet magazine pointed out all the shows with [Black] people. My sisters and I became expert counters. We had it down to a science."
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