"One Crazy Summer," by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad, 224 pp., $15.99, ages 9-12). This wonderful story of three young sisters from Brooklyn, N.Y., who must spend the summer in Oakland, Calif., with a mother they barely know combines a flashback to the 1960s with a warm family drama. (CSMonitor.com, 5/15/10)
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