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Mr. Chickee's funny money

Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell's huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.

Main Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2005.
Subjects:
Money > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Flint (Mich.) > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell's huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.
Physical Description: 151 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience: 008-012.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN: 0385327722 (hardcover) :
0385909365 (library binding)
Author Notes: Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an assembly line hanging car doors.

His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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