The mighty Miss Malone

Resource Information

The work The mighty Miss Malone represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The mighty Miss Malone

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Paul Curtis

Creator

• Curtis, Christopher Paul

Subject

• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
• Electronic books
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Family life -- Fiction
• Flint (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Flint (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Gary (Ind.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Poverty -- Fiction
• Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
• Gary (Ind.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• History
• Juvenile fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

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
• Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class, 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, and end up in a shantytown outside Flint, Michigan

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.C94137

LC item number

Mi 2012eb

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Reading level

4.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

pre adolescent