Amistad, 2010
226 pages
Reading Level: 5.0
Uninvited, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters travel from Brooklyn, New York, to Oakland, California, to spend a month with Cecile, their mother who deserted them. A poet and printer, Cecile resents the visit the children's father forced upon her. Set during the Black Panthers' revolution, Cecile gets arrested, and yet another kind of revolution results.