Bud, not Buddy
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father -- from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree. It's 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, a...
| Main Author: | Curtis, Christopher Paul. |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2001.
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| Summary: |
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father -- from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree. It's 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase full of special things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him -- not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTSAN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOKAN IRA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNERNAMED TO 14 STATE AWARD LISTS "The book is a gem, of value to all ages, not just the young people to whom it is aimed." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred "Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again." -- Voice of Youth Advocates, StarredFrom the Hardcover edition. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource |
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| Audience: |
Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 6 MG/Middle grades (4th-8th) 950 5 |
| ISBN: |
9780385729956 |
| Author Notes: |
His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) |