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Eleven-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…
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15 editions- Paperback · English · 2019Thorndike Press Large Print · 264 pages · 9781432864019
- Paperback · English · 2012One Crazy Summer (Newbery Honor Book; Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Coretta Scott King Award; National Book Award Finalist)Scholastic · 218 pages · 9780545447843
- Paperback · English · 2012Scholastic Inc. · 9780545458283
- Paperback · English · 2011Amistad · 240 pages · 9780060760908
- Ebook · English · 2010HarperCollins · 9780061966675
- Audiobook · English · 2010Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664505674
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