The Black Panther member Bobby Hutton has been shot and killed by police, and one of their founding members, Huey Newton, has been wrongfully jailed. They are taught the importance of feeding and helping poor African Americans, and also in protecting African American communities. There, the three sisters get taught about the movement. It was in Cecile's kitchen that the girl met Sister Mukumbu. However, Cecile had her reason.she was running breakfast and day camp for the Black Panther Party. Cecile never calls Fern by her name, but always refers to her as 'little girl.' The girl's grandmother always said that Cecile abandoned them because their father objected to her giving the baby a name.

However, the girls’ father sends them to Oakland, California one summer to stay with their estranged mother, Cecile, who refers to herself as Nzilla. Plot ĭelphine, age eleven, Vonetta, nine, and Fern, seven, live in Brooklyn, New York. In 2011 it won the Coretta Scott King Award for its author, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and was a Newbery Medal Honor Book. In the year of its inception, the book was a National Book Award finalist for young people's literature. The novel is about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, visiting their mother in Oakland, California, during the summer of 1968.

One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010.

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