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The National Book Award finalist by Christopher Paul Curtis! Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died and Cap'n Buck -- the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina -- has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of stealing from the cap'n and his boss. It's not too bad of a bargain for Charlie... until he comes face-to-face with the fugitives and discovers their true identities. Torn between his guilty conscience and his survival instinct, Charlie needs to figure out his next move -- and soon. It's only a matter of time before Cap'n Buck catches on. Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to this story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.

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Praise for the Buxton Chronicles: Curtis is a master at balancing the serious and the lighthearted. -- New York Times Book Review, on Elijah of Buxton * A fine, original novel from a gifted storyteller. -- Booklist, starred review, on Elijah of Buxton Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead... a pleasure to read. -- New York Times Book Review, on The Madman of Piney Woods * A journey of revelation and insight... profoundly moving yet also at times very funny. -- Horn Book Magazine, starred review, on The Madman of Piney Woods

"Praise for the Buxton Chronicles: ""Curtis is a master at balancing the serious and the lighthearted."" -- New York Times Book Review, on Elijah of Buxton * ""A fine, original novel from a gifted storyteller."" -- Booklist, starred review, on Elijah of Buxton ""Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead... a pleasure to read."" -- New York Times Book Review, on The Madman of Piney Woods * ""A journey of revelation and insight... profoundly moving yet also at times very funny."" -- Horn Book Magazine, starred review, on The Madman of Piney Woods"

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Christopher Paul Curtis was awarded both a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his debut book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963, and won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his second book, Bud, Not Buddy. Mr. Curtis is also the author of the Golden Kite Award-winning Bucking the Sarge, as well as Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, and the Newbery Honor book Elijah of Buxton.

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