One Crazy Summer author-Cornelia Funke Makeda can’t help wondering: What

Makeda can’t help wondering: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me

The darkness always finds you

and all-around perfectionist

Leon Redbeard

Who is Ada now

One Crazy Summer author-Cornelia Funke Makeda can’t help wondering: WhatIn her first novel for middle graders, distinguished author Rita Williams Garcia tells the moving story of three sisters who travel to turbulent Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. Eleven year old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. And even though Delphine must look after her sisters during a summer trip to California