Bucking the Sarge /
Christopher Paul Curtis.
- New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2006, c2004.
- 259 p. ; 22 cm.
Originally published in hardcover by Wendy Lamb Books, New York/ 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.
1000 Lexile.
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2005.
0440413311 (pbk.)
9780440413318
Business enterprises--Fiction. Fraud--Fiction. Group homes--Fiction. Mothers--Fiction. People with mental disabilities--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction.