Brave Boys Newbery Boxed Set

by Christopher Paul Curtis, Gary Paulsen, Louis Sachar

Boxed set of Newbery award winners.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 to Dr. Herman Elmer Curtis, a chiropodist, and Leslie Jane Curtis, an educator. The city of Flint plays an important role in many of Curtis's books. One such example is Bucking the Sarge, which is about a fifteen year old boy named Luther T. Ferrel, who is in a running battle with his slum-lord mother. Curtis is an alumnus of the University of Michigan-Flint.

Curtis is the father of two children, Steven, an ensign in the United States Navy, and Cydney, a college student and accomplished pianist. His third child is expected to make an appearance in 2011. Christopher modeled characters in Bud, Not Buddy after his two grandfathers—Earl “Lefty” Lewis, a Negro league baseball pitcher, and 1930s bandleader Herman E. Curtis, Sr., of Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.

Curtis moved to Detroit, Michigan in January, 2009

Reviews

[Aliff · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is very interesting. I like this storybook because it is an adventure story. The book is about a 13 year old boy named Brian. He was riding in a bush plane when suddenly the pilot had heart attack and the plane crashed. He was the only survivor passenger on the plane. he crashes in a place that he had never been before. There, he learned to independent. With the clothes on his back and a hatchet that his mother had given him, he learns to cope with his parents divorce and deals with the haunting secret about his mother. Read how he survive the 54 days in the woods.

Happy reading!