Author: Rita Williams Garcia
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Historical
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date of Publication: 2010
Award: Coretta Scott King
Theme: Equal Rights
Primary/ Secondary Characters: Delphine/ Big Ma, Pa, Cecile, Fern, and Vonetta
Summary: Delphine and her two younger sisters are being sent to their mothers for the summer. The girls do not know their mother because she left when they were younger and had nothing to do with them. When the girls got to their mothers they wanted to go back home because the mother was treating them badly. They were sent to camp during the day and then had to fend for themselves night. While the girls are there they realize that the center where they are at was a rights activists group called the Black Panthers, which their mother was a part of. One night after camp when the girls got home and their mother was being arrested and they had to stay with friends. Later in the summer the girls participated in a festival for the Black Panthers where they read a poem about separate but equal rights. At the festival their mother heard the poem and it brings them all closer together. When it was time for the girls to leave they did not want to.
Summary of how to use with students: This book could help the students understand more about equal rights and life during this point in history. It is important for students to know what people went through and felt during this time in history and this book does just that.
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