Hi, this is Betsy from Otto’s. Eleven year old Delphine has had a lot of responsibility looking after her two younger sisters, ever since her mother walked out on them and their father seven years ago. Now her father wants her to take her sisters to visit their mother across the country in Oakland. It’s time they get to know each other he thinks. But their mother isn’t any more interested in them now than she was when she left. How the girls stay out of their mother’s way by hanging out at the Black Panther Day Center, how they find their own voice at a Black Panther rally and how they win a tiny bit of approval from their mother makes the book, One Crazy Summer, (the 2011Coretta Scott King Award winner) by Rita Williams-Garcia, a gripping story. The characters and the setting (California in the late ‘60’s) open the reader’s eyes to see beyond the statistics and the headlines and engage with real people in turbulent times. You just gotta love Delphine! Meet her in One Crazy Summer. You’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport.
