Also published: New York : Amistad, 2012. 218 pages

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Honor Book Award

Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award

Winner of the Fall 2010 Parent's Choice Gold Award for Fiction

Also published: New York : Amistad, 2012. 218 pages, 13 pages

Grades 4-7

750L

A Junior Library Guild selection

Winner of the 2011 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction