Published Works
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 - When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the Watsons head from Flint, Michigan, to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit Grandma Sands, the one person who can shape Byron up. But the events that shake Birmingham in the summer of 1963 will change Kenny's life for ever.
Bud, Not Buddy - It is 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him. The book was released in September 1999.
Bucking the Sarge - Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. He just needs to escape the evil empire of the local slumlord, his mother.
Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission - When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case.
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money - Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face.
Elijah of Buxton (2007) A story based on the real settlement of former slaves who escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad.
The Mighty Miss Malone - (2012) This book is set in depression-era Gary, Indiana, and Flint, Michigan. The work is a spin-off from Bud, Not Buddy and is narrated by 12-year-old Deza Malone.
Curtis's next book, Benji & Red (Formerly titled "The Madman of Piney Woods") returns readers to Buxton, Ontario, this time in 1901. It is a story told, in alternating chapters, by two twelve-year-old boys. One, Alvin "Red" Stockard, is an Irish boy living in Chatham, Ontario, and the other, Benjamin "Benji" Alston, is an African-Canadian boy living in the settlement of Buxton. Several characters from "Elijah of Buxton" make brief reappearances.
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