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Buddy is a stupid name for a girl

When her father disappears mysteriously on a trucking job, eleven-year-old Buddy moves in with relatives she hardly knows and finds herself in a dysfunctional family with secrets about the past.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roberts, Willo Davis
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Subjects:	Aunts > Juvenile fiction. Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction. Old age > Juvenile fiction. Alcoholism > Juvenile fiction. Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	When her father disappears mysteriously on a trucking job, eleven-year-old Buddy moves in with relatives she hardly knows and finds herself in a dysfunctional family with secrets about the past.
Physical Description:	218 p.
ISBN:	0689816707
Author Notes:	Author Willo Davis Roberts was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 29, 1928. Her first novel, Murder at Grand Bay, was published in 1955. The View from the Cherry Tree was originally meant to be an adult novel, but was then sold as a children's book; it was published in 1975 and started her career as a children's mystery writer. Roberts wrote a total of ninety-nine children and adult books during her lifetime and won numerous awards including the Mark Twain award for The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1980) and Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job (1985) and the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Megan's Island (1988), The Absolutely True Story of My Visit to Yellowstone with the Terrible Rupes (1994), and Twisted Summer (1996). She died on November 19, 2004 from congestive heart failure. (Bowker Author Biography)