TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Great Depression, The
KW - Prohibition
KW - unemployment
KW - moonshiners
KW - James Renshaw Cox (1886-1951)
KW - Civilian Conservation Corp
KW - dementia
KW - food poisoning
KW - Catholic schools
KW - pollution
KW - priests
AU - Katherine Ayres
AB - 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.”
C1 - 1933
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Strip District; St. Patrick Church; North Side; Troy Hill; Herrs Island
C4 - Children’s; Mystery; Historical; Environmental
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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.”
PB - Delacorte Press
PP - New York
PY - 2003
RN - Katherine Ayres (1947— ) is a Pittsburgh writer who coordinates the Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Writing Program at Chatham University.
EP - 182 p.
TI - Macaroni Boy
ER -