By Rita Williams-Garcia, illustrated by Sharee Miller
(HarperAlley)
One Crazy Summer, an award-winning historical fiction book published 15 years ago, has been adapted into a graphic novel. It takes place in the summer of 1968, when three sisters—Delphine, age 11, Vonetta, age 9, and Fern, age 7—fly from New York City, where they live with their dad and his mother, to Oakland, California, to spend a month with their mom, Cecile. She left for California when Fern was a baby. After the sisters arrive, Cecile tells them to go out and buy Chinese food. Delphine watches out for her siblings as they navigate the new neighborhood. Cecile wants to concentrate on her poetry, so she sends the sisters to a day camp run by the Black Panthers (an organization that was…
