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Curtis, Christopher Paul.Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CURCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1995
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: Deza is praised by the teachers at her school in Gary, Indiana. However, the Great Depression has taken its toll, and when her father leaves to find work, Deza and her family end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Deza's brother soon leaves the camp to earn a living as a performer, while Deza and her mother are forced to fend for themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012