One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
2010
Newberry Honor Novel
Coretta Scott King Award
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Winner
National Book Award Finalist
As a multiple award winning novel One Crazy Summer is a unique story about a girl and her 2 sisters. They were abandoned by their mother when Delphine, the oldest, was 4 years old. Now, 7 years later the girls travel across the country to spend a summer with the mother they barely know. It truly is "one crazy summer" for these 3 girls.
I can only imagine the anxiousness the 3 girls were feeling on the plane flying from New York to California. How does one reconnect with someone who has abandoned them to pursue a "better life"? How does a mother leave 3 young girls to be raised by a father and grandmother? The author creates a connection between the girls and their mother, even though their mother is complacent. The author reveals the reasons why throughout the text in a sympathetic way, as to not paint her as a failure of a mother. What an amazing story unveiled perfectly by the author, consisting of laughable moments as well as tearful moments.
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