One Crazy Summer is a novel you can read with 4th-8th graders. It is a book where one can center Black lives within the curriculum. It is a good book to go along with teaching CA or USA history- especially telling the story of the Black Panther Movement and their education program.  This book is set in Oakland, CA and it is a good book to teach about civic engagement, grassroots organizing, solidarity and multi-ethnic/racial resistance.  We highly recommend this book where one can begin to teach ethnic studies and center Black lives within the curriculum.  Key themes of the book are re-education/ education for liberation, #BlackLivesMatter, surveillance, provocateurs, organizing, solidarity, etc.