2011 Newbery Medal and Honor awards: here are the winners

5. One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

"One Crazy Summer," by Rita Williams-Garcia (ages 9-12, Amistad, 224 pp.) is a 2011 Newbery Honor book. Three sisters relocate to Oakland, CA where they find their less-than-enthusiastic mother and an atmosphere of complicated race relations. These lovable protagonists – mature beyond their years – use the summer to make sense of their troubled family and times.

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