Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
It's personal. Some of Rita Williams-Garcia's family members are Black Panthers, so she's familiar with them.
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The author wrote One Crazy Summer for the children of the Black Power Movement. Aw.
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Rita Williams-Garcia doesn't consider herself a poet. In fact, she freaked out at the prospect of having to write poetry for the book. Looks like she got over that fear, since poetry shows up in One Crazy Summer.
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At first, Delphine was going to be the poet. After writing more of the book, though, Williams-Garcia didn't think Delphine would have time to write poetry or be that interested in it, though, so instead she chose Fern to be the mini-poet in the making.
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If you liked One Crazy Summer, check out the other books in the series. That's right; it's part of a trilogy.
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