Curtis, Christopher Paul. <br/><br/>
The mighty Miss Malone / 
Christopher Paul Curtis. 
 - 307 pages :  illustrations ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Wilson's Children, October 2012.  School Library Journal, February 2012.  Library Media Connection starred, August 2012.  Pub Weekly, December 2011.  Kirkus Starred, December 2011.  Booklist, January 2012.  Horn Book, November 2012.  Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2012. 
<br/><br/> Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home. 
<br/><br/> 4.4  3-6  750L  Lexile  U  Fountas 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385734912 (trade) 9780385904872 (lib. bdg.) 9780440422143 (pbk.) 0385734913 0385904878 0440422140 9780545688406 9780545683128 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011036317 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Poverty--Juvenile fiction.<br/>African Americans--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Family life--Fiction.<br/>Depressions--1929--Fiction.<br/>Poverty--Fiction.<br/>African Americans--Fiction.<br/>Great Depression, 1929-1939--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Gary (Ind.)--History--Fiction.<br/>Flint (Mich.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.C94137  / Mi 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F CUR