Rita Williams-Garcia will be visiting CBW on April 28, 2025 at 4:00pm with
One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel
Children’s Book World is thrilled to welcome award winning author, Rita Williams-Garcia. Her celebrated book, One Crazy Summer, is being adapted to a graphic novel and we couldn’t be more excited. Join us on Monday, April 28th at 4:00pm! You won’t want to miss this special event to learn how this special book became One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel.
About Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book, One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her book, P.S. Be Eleven, won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014. In 2016 her book, Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award.
About One Crazy Summer
“I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland…”
Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California.
But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers.
Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.
This beloved Newbery Honor Book, National Book Award finalist, and Coretta Scott King Award–winning novel about the three unforgettable Gaither sisters has been adapted into a beautiful full-color graphic novel for a new generation, with vibrant art by Sharee Miller.