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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Jenyfer, Ohio, Nature with the genre: Romance, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'One Crazy Summer'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled One Crazy Summer about Denise, Mid-Michigan, Nearby with the genre: Romance, Contemporary.
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conversations.value: the author resides in beautiful Mid-Michigan, with her extremely patient and supportive husband. Nearby are her loving children and adorable grand babies. Denise enjoys a very warm and close relationship with her parents and sisters, who also live close by. She divides her time between family, writing, and her other love, animals. Denise and her husband own a small pet grooming shop, in Owosso, Michigan, as well as a house full of pets. Credit for Denise beginning her writing career goes to fellow WCP author Ren Loomis, when she said to just DO IT
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled One Crazy Summer about Black, Oakland, Panther with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life.
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conversations.value: Starred Review. Grade 4&ndash;7&mdash;It is 1968, and three black sisters from Brooklyn have been put on a California-bound plane by their father to spend a month with their mother, a poet who ran off years before and is living in Oakland. It's the summer after Black Panther founder Huey Newton was jailed and member Bobby Hutton was gunned down trying to surrender to the Oakland police, and there are men in berets shouting "Black Power" on the news. Delphine, 11, remembers her mother, but after years of separation she's more apt to believe what her grandmother has said about her, that Cecile is a selfish, crazy woman who sleeps on the street. At least Cecile lives in a real house, but she reacts to her daughters' arrival without warmth or even curiosity. Instead, she sends the girls to eat breakfast at a center run by the Black Panther Party and tells them to stay out as long as they can so that she can work on her poetry. Over the course of the next four weeks, Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, spend a lot of time learning about revolution and staying out of their mother's way. Emotionally challenging and beautifully written, this book immerses readers in a time and place and raises difficult questions of cultural and ethnic identity and personal responsibility. With memorable characters (all three girls have engaging, strong voices) and a powerful story, this is a book well worth reading and rereading.&mdash;<I>Teri Markson, Los Angeles Public Library</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled One Crazy Summer about Jenyfer, Ohio, Nature with the genre: Romance, Contemporary.
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conversations.value: One Crazy Summer (novel): Delphine, 11, Vonetta 9, and Fern, 7, live with their father and grandmother in Brooklyn, New York.\nHowever, the girls\' father sends them to Oakland, California one summer to stay with their estranged mother, Cecile, who refers to herself as Nzila.\nCecile never calls Fern by her name, always referring to her as "little girl".\nThis makes Delphine believe what her grandmother has always said to be true—that Cecile abandoned her children because their father objected to her giving the baby the name of Afua.\nCecile makes Delphine hand over the money her father gave them for expenses in California, giving them a small allowance to get Chinese food every day and forbidding them to enter her kitchen, which is Cecile\'s workplace where she writes and prints poetry.\nDuring the day, the three sisters go to The People\'s Center run by the Black Panther Party for breakfast and day camp, where they meet Sister Mukumbu.\nHere the three sisters get a radical education that paints the Black Panther Party in a positive light, showing the good deeds they do, such as feeding poor children.\nThe Black Panther member Bobby Hutton has been shot and killed by police, and one of their founding members, Huey Newton, has been wrongfully jailed.\nThe children at the center will soon participate in a rally to protest these injustices.\nAfter a day trip to San Francisco, the sisters return home to find their mother Cecile and two members of the Black Panther Party being arrested.\nCecile tells the police she has no children, so the girls pretend to live next door.\nSoon a friend from the Center, Hirohito, comes for the girls and allows them to stay with him until Cecile returns home.\nThe time of the rally arrives.\nDuring the talent show portion, and the girls perform a poem their mother wrote, which they found while cleaning the kitchen after her arrest.\nAfter their recital, Fern takes the microphone and tells the Black Panthers how she saw one of their most vocal members, (Crazy) Kelvin, interacting agreeably with the police, which gets him in trouble with the party members.\nAt the rally, the sisters see their mother has been released from jail, and return home with her.\nThough Delphine and Cecile\'s relationship remains strained, Cecile tells Delphine how she lost her mother at age 11 and had a rough life thereafter.\nShe tries to explain why she left her children, but Delphine is still too young to understand.\nThe next day, the girls return home, after finally hugging their mother.
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conversations.value: \nHowever, the girls\' father sends them to Oakland, California one summer to stay with their estranged mother, Cecile, who refers to herself as Nzila.\nCecile never calls Fern by her name, always referring to her as "little girl".\nThis makes Delphine believe what her grandmother has always said to be true—that Cecile abandoned her children because their father objected to her giving the baby the name of Afua.\nCecile makes Delphine hand over the money her father gave them for expenses in California, giving them a small allowance to get Chinese food every day and forbidding them to enter her kitchen, which is Cecile\'s workplace where she writes and prints poetry.\nDuring the day, the three sisters go to The People\'s Center run by the Black Panther Party for breakfast and day camp, where they meet Sister Mukumbu.\nHere the three sisters get a radical education that paints the Black Panther Party in a positive light, showing the good deeds they do, such as feeding poor children.\nThe Black Panther member Bobby Hutton has been shot and killed by police, and one of their founding members, Huey Newton, has been wrongfully jailed.\nThe children at the center will soon participate in a rally to protest these injustices.\nAfter a day trip to San Francisco, the sisters return home to find their mother Cecile and two members of the Black Panther Party being arrested.\nCecile tells the police she has no children, so the girls pretend to live next door.\nSoon a friend from the Center, Hirohito, comes for the girls and allows them to stay with him until Cecile returns home.\nThe time of the rally arrives.\nDuring the talent show portion, and the girls perform a poem their mother wrote, which they found while cleaning the kitchen after her arrest.\nAfter their recital, Fern takes the microphone and tells the Black Panthers how she saw one of their most vocal members, (Crazy) Kelvin, interacting agreeably with the police, which gets him in trouble with the party members.\nAt the rally, the sisters see their mother has been released from jail, and return home with her.\nThough Delphine and Cecile\'s relationship remains strained, Cecile tells Delphine how she lost her mother at age 11 and had a rough life thereafter.\nShe tries to explain why she left her children, but Delphine is still too young to understand.\nThe next day, the girls return home, after finally hugging their mother.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled One Crazy Summer.. Start with the sentence 'One Crazy Summer: Hoops McCann (Cusack) is a recent high school graduate who failed to get a basketball scholarship, disappointing his parents'.
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conversations.value: One Crazy Summer: Hoops McCann (Cusack) is a recent high school graduate who failed to get a basketball scholarship, disappointing his parents.\nHoops hopes to be admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design, and must write and illustrate a love story for his application.\nHe joins his friend George Calamari (Murray), and George's sister Squid, to spend the summer on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.\nEn route, they pick up a young rock singer named Cassandra Eldridge (Moore); who is being chased by a motorcycle gang at the time.\nOnce on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack Raymond, must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family.\nAlong the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story.\nWith the prize returned and the house spared, Hoops and Cassandra engage in a kiss and finally gives Hoops his love story for his application.\nIn the final scene, George's uncle Frank (having been driven insane every summer for trying to win a $1 million prize from a radio contest) finally wins, but his phone gets disconnected and his prize is given away to someone else; he snaps and promptly uses a rocket launcher to blow up the radio station, just as the Stork twins arrive and head to the fiery remains to roast marshmallows.