Bucking the Sarge /
Christopher Paul Curtis.
- New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2004.
- 259 p. ; 22 cm.
2005 Michigan Notable Book
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.
12 & up
0385323077 (trade) 0385901593 (library binding)
2004006445
Business enterprises--Fiction. Fraud--Fiction. Group homes--Fiction. Mothers--Fiction. People with mental disabilities--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction.