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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.

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Main Author:	Curtis, Christopher Paul
Other Authors:	Turpin, Bahni
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : Random House Audio/Listening Library, p2012.
Edition:	Unabridged.
Subjects:	Families > Juvenile fiction. Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction. Poverty > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Gary (Ind.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction. Flint (Mich.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction. Children's audiobooks.
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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.
Item Description:	Title from container. Compact discs. Duration: 7:55:00.
Physical Description:	7 sound discs (ca. 68 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:	3-6.
ISBN:	9780307968227 0307968227 9780307968241 : 0307968243 :
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)