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Laurel Leaf Library, 2004-14-09

Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf)

Christopher Paul Curtis, Author

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9780553494105

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It's 1936 Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy, 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: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his band of renown, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. Bud is sure those posters will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road, nothing can stop him, not hunger, not fear, not would-be vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

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Keywords and Themes: Action & Adventure • African American & Black • Boys & Men • Family • Historical • JUV001000 • JUV005000 • JUV011010 • JUV013060 • JUV016150 • JUV039130 • Juvenile Fiction • Parents • Runaways • Social Themes • United States - 20th Century

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 288

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Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Runaways • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents • Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men • Juvenile Fiction | African American & Black • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century

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, recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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.

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times
School Library Journal
Publishers Weekly

"[A] powerfully felt novel." --The New York Times

"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, Starred

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