The mighty Miss Malone / Christopher Paul Curtis.
Material type:
TextPublication details: [New York] : Yearling Books, 2013.Edition: First Yearling editionDescription: 307 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780440422143
- 0440422140
- 9780385734912
- 0385734913
- 9780385904872
- 0385904878
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | CURTIS CHRISTOP | Available | 33111009790359 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | CURTIS CHRISTOP | Available | 33111010476386 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Curtis Chr | Available | 33111006675934 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression hashit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
RL: 4.5.
Ages 9-12.