![]() ![]() Delphine's growing awareness of injustice on a personal and universal level is smoothly woven into the story in poetic language that will stimulate and move readers. ![]() Writing Style: The writing style in this book was beautiful and even poetic at times. Once I got into it, the story kept me engaged throughout. However, it still was paced well with an interesting plot. Delphine doesn't buy into all of the group's ideas, but she does come to understand her mother a little better over the summer. Plot/Pacing: Overall, this was a very character-driven story. Instead of taking her children to Disneyland as they had hoped, Cecile shoos them off to the neighborhood People's Center, run by members of the Black Panthers. ![]() Tall, dark brown woman in man's pants whose face was half hidden by a scarf, hat, and big dark shades. When Cecile picks them up at the airport, she is as unconventional as Delphine remembers (“There was something uncommon about Cecile. Through lively first-person narrative,readers meet Delphine, whose father sends her and her two younger sisters to Oakland, Calif., to visit their estranged mother, Cecile. ) evokes the close-knit bond between three sisters, and the fervor and tumultuousness of the late 1960s, in this period novel featuring an outspoken 11-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y. ![]()
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