Bud, not Buddy

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Summary

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Gr. 4^-6. Bud, 10, is on the run from the orphanage and from yet another mean foster family. His mother died when he was 6, and he wants to find his father. Set in Michigan during the Great Depression, this is an Oliver Twist kind of foundling story, but it's told with affectionate comedy, like the first part of Curtis' The Watsons Go to Birmingham (1995). On his journey, Bud finds danger and violence (most of it treated as farce), but more often, he finds kindness--in the food line, in the library, in the Hooverville squatter camp, on the road--until he discovers who he is and where he belongs. Told in the boy's naive, desperate voice, with lots of examples of his survival tactics ("Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar out of Yourself"), this will make a great read-aloud. Curtis says in an afterword that some of the characters are based on real people, including his own grandfathers, so it's not surprising that the rich blend of tall tale, slapstick, sorrow, and sweetness has the wry, teasing warmth of family folklore. --Hazel Rochman"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "A 10-year-old boy in Depression-era Michigan sets out to find the man he believes to be his father. "While the harshness of Bud's circumstances are authentically depicted, Curtis imbues them with an aura of hope, and he makes readers laugh even when he sets up the most daunting scenarios," said PW in our Best Books citation. Ages 9-12. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Orphans Juvenile fiction Missing persons Juvenile fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Depressions 1929 Juvenile fiction African American musicians Juvenile fiction Jazz Juvenile fiction Runaways Fiction African Americans Fiction Depressions 1929 Fiction Runaway teenagers Juvenile fiction Juvenile Fiction Electronic books. 1929
Publisher	New York :Random House Children's Books,2001 Random House Children's Books2001
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Adobe PDF eBook Format: Kindle Book Format: OverDrive READ Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
Awards	Newbery Medal, 2000. John Newbery Medal, 2000 Coretta Scott King Award, 2000
Description	1 online resource
ISBN	9780385729956 9780385729956
Other	Classic View