Christopher Paul Curtis, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-440-41328-8
A 10-year-old boy in Depression-era Michigan sets out to find the man he believes to be his father. "While the harshness of Bud's circumstances are authentically depicted, Curtis imbues them with an aura of hope, and he makes readers laugh...
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author . Random/ Lamb $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-90159-8
Curtis (Bud, Not Buddy
; The Watsons Go to Birmingham
) invites readers to visit present-day Flint, Mich., and to meet one of its wealthiest 15-year-olds, Luther T. Farrell. From the outside, narrator Luther's life might seem enviable. He drives
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author . Random/ Lamb $15.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-385-90936-5
Encyclopedia Brown may have to move over. There's a new detective in town with a hip attitude and some pretty nifty spy gadgets to boot. This premiere volume of a series created by the author of Bud, Not Buddy
introduces fourth grader Steven...
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author . Random/ Lamb $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-385-32775-6
Infused with the same high energy found in Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
, this second installment of the Flint Future Detectives series offers even zanier adventures with mixed results. Steven Carter and Russell Woods allow a new member into their...
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (341p) ISBN 978-0-439-02344-3
Elijah Freeman, 11, has two claims to fame. He was the first child “born free” to former slaves in Buxton, a (real) haven established in 1849 in Canada by an American abolitionist. The rest of his celebrity, Elijah reports in his folksy...
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-32306-2
As in his Newbery Honor-winning debut, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, Curtis draws on a remarkable and disarming mix of comedy and pathos, this time to describe the travails and adventures of a 10-year-old African-American orphan in Depression-e
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Christopher Paul Curtis, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-440-41412-4
A 1996 Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book, this comic tale, narrated by a 10-year-old boy, describes an eccentric family's unwitting trip South to visit Grandma--during one of the stormiest times of the Civil Rights movement. PW's boxed,
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Christopher Paul Curtis. Random/Lamb, $15.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-73491-2
Even ardent fans of Curtis’s Newbery winner, Bud, Not Buddy, may not remember Deza Malone, who shares dishwashing duties with Bud Caldwell during his brief stay at a Hooverville in Flint, Mich. Responding to readers’ pleas that he write a book with...
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Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-545-15664-6
In 1901, Benji Alston lives in Buxton, Ont., a real-life town settled by abolitionists and runaway slaves (and the setting of Curtis’s Newbery Honor–winning Elijah of Buxton). Alvin “Red” Stockard, son of an Irish immigrant and a local judge,...
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Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-15666-0
Echoing themes found in Curtis’s Newbery Honor–winning Elijah of Buxton, this exceedingly tense novel set in 1858 provides a very different perspective on the business of catching runaway slaves. Eking out a living as South Carolina sharecroppers,...
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Christopher Paul Curtis, read by Michael Crouch. Books on Tape, 5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-8041-6802-1
Crouch’s facility with character voices gives color and atmosphere to this tale of a Southern white country boy forced to help an evil overseer track down a runaway slave family. Charlie is a simple, naive, uneducated boy who only knows farming, but
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Christopher Paul Curtis, read by Bahni Turpin. Listening Library, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $44 ISBN 978-0-307-96822-7
In Depression-era Indiana, Deza Malone’s opportunities are slim despite her potential. She’s got the smarts, the determination, and the attitude, but her family lacks the resources to help her grow to her full potential—and things only become worse...
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