AUHTOR: Christopher Paul Curtis
GENRE: Historical Fiction
THEMES: Music, Adoption, Foster Care, Runaways
AWARDS: This book won both a Newberry award and a Coretta Scott King award.
PUBLISHING
DATE AND COMPANY: Yearling, 2002
SUMMARY: This book is based on the life of an orphan that the only thing he knew about his life was that he had a picture of his mom as a child, and a bag of rocks that she left him. This book deals with the trials that he has to go through as an orphan, and dealing with going to different foster homes. Eventually he meets up with a famous musician, who accuses him of stealing the rocks from his house. Then it is found out who his mother was, and why she had the rocks.
This is a great book to inform children and parents about the life in the early 1900's. Though, it must be used carefully in class, as to not upset someone who may have been in foster care at some point.
This is a great book to inform children and parents about the life in the early 1900's. Though, it must be used carefully in class, as to not upset someone who may have been in foster care at some point.
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