@book{856, keywords = {Roman Catholics, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Great Depression, The, Prohibition, unemployment, moonshiners, James Renshaw Cox (1886-1951), Civilian Conservation Corp, dementia, food poisoning, Catholic schools, pollution, priests}, author = {Katherine Ayres}, title = {Macaroni Boy}, abstract = {Set during the Great Depression, sixth grader Mike Costa lives with his family above Costa Brothers Fine Foods in the Strip District. Andy Simms, a Catholic school bully, mercilessly taunts Mike by calling him “Macaroni Boy.”}, year = {2003}, pages = {182 p.}, publisher = {Delacorte Press}, address = {New York}, language = {English}, }