Before Aguilla could shoot the mast again, he is thrown overboard by Squid operating a mechanical dolphin from a nearby movie set, as retaliation for when he kicked her beloved dog earlier. A Venn diagram is a useful tool to compare and contrast characters. A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test. From here on in, it only gets crazier. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were published in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. One Crazy Summer is one monumental book! Hoops runs afoul of Teddy Beckersted and his neglected girlfriend, Cookie. One Crazy Summer is an award-winning book. A hilarious movie from Savage Steve Holland, director of Better Off Dead, which also starred Cusack. After spraying Teddy and his friends with mace, Cassandra is upset that Hoops did not appear for her performance and lied that he was a good basketball player. Set during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California, “One Crazy Summer” follows the lives of the Gaither sisters, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, as they visit with their mother … Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. One Crazy Summer is a children's novel and work of historical fiction by Rita Williams-Garcia. "Girls, if you make faces like that and somebody slaps you on the back... you'll stay that way forever! A Junior Guild Title! Questions: 4, 7, 8, 9 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of … Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. One Crazy Summer is a 1986 romantic comedy film written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, and starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong and Joel Murray. She decides to do something about it. Starting on the foundation of the basic 1980s screwball comedy, it transcends the other B movies of that genre with its characters and its own unique laugh-out-loud moments. Her cooking career comes to a halt and best friends Rob and Mateo enter the picture. Tania's summer is more than she can handle! Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Children's Books. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack (son of a marine), must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Yeah, nope. With the prize returned and the house spared, Hoops and Cassandra kiss, and she inspires a love story for his application. The always likable Cusack collaborates with "Better Off Dead" director Holland again in this comedy about a struggling cartoonist who helps a singer (Moore...And boy does she sing badly.) As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test. Meanwhile, Egg gets stuck in a Godzilla costume and causes havoc at Beckersted's promotional party for the Beckersted Estates (which would be located at the spot of Cassandra's grandfather's house). 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