One Crazy Summer Contributor(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060760907 ISBN-13: 9780060760908 Publisher: Quill Tree Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 9-12 |
Grade Level: 4-7 |
Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.13" W x 7.13" (0.34 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Northern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Oakland, California |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Nominee, Children's Book, 2012 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Nominee, Grades 6-8, 2014 California Young Reader Medal, Nominee, Middle School, 2014 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 135338 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams-Garcia, Rita: - Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, P.S. Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers. She is also the author of six distinguished novels for young adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here, Every Time a Rainbow Dies (a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book), and Fast Talk on a Slow Track (all ALA Best Books for Young Adults); Blue Tights; and Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program, and has two adult daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, and a son-in-law, Adam. |
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