Book
Bucking the Sarge
Record details
- ISBN: 9780440413318 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 0440413311 (pbk.) :
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Physical Description:
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259, 18 p. ; 18 cm. - Publisher: New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2006, c2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | A readers guide at back of book. |
| Summary, etc.: | Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. |
| Target Audience Note: | dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. 5.5 Follett Library Resources |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR 5.8 10.0 |
| Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, Teen, 2008. Nutmeg Award Nominee 2008 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | YA CURTIS (Text) | 34000075116806 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | J PB CURTIS (Text) | 31953001662322 | Juvenile Paperback | Available | - |
| Janet Carlson Calvert Library - Franklin | YA F CUR (Text)
: Nutmeg Award 2008
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33345000092072 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | YA FIC CUR (Text) | 33430000545756 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lebanon Middle School | PBK FIC CURTIS (Text) | 33431000018021 | Fiction | Available | - |
| North Branch - Bridgeport | YPB CURTIS (Text) | 34000074228891 | Young Adult Paperback | Available | - |
| Thompson Middle School | Curtis (Text) | 34065094680173 | Realistic Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Bucking the Sarge
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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