Christopher Paul Curtis

Broschiertes Buch

The Mighty Miss Malone

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been made into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. He is also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer. He lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780440422143
• ISBN-10: 0440422140
• Artikelnr.: 35709610