This book is the sequel to One Crazy Summer but could be
read without reading the first book.
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are back home in New York after spending the
summer with their mother in Oakland. All
summer they were involved with the Black Panthers and listening to their
mother’s ideas about independence.
However, not much has changed in their father’s household. Their grandmother, Big Ma, still expects
Delphine to keep order and be extra polite to white people. One big thing has changed though. Their father has a girlfriend. Delphine is worried about sixth grade,
especially the sixth grade dance. She
wants to be grown up but her mother keeps writing her letters telling her to
“be eleven”. Delphine doesn’t understand
what her mother means but keep on doing her best. This is a good story about three African
American girls growing up in the late 1960s.
Kids who like true-to-life historical fiction will probably like this
story.
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