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Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis. --
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0553494104 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780553494105 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: viii, 243, 18 p. --
- Edition: 1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed. --
- Publisher: New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2004, c1999.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 8.99 |
| Awards Note: | John Newbery Medal |
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| Subject: | Runaway children > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction. |
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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. - Random House, Inc.
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his fatherâfrom Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott KingâVirginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Itâs 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Budâs got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. Heâs the author of Bud Caldwellâs 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!!!!!!
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Budâs 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 himânot hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
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BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
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â[A] powerfully felt novel.â âThe New York Times
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âWill keep readers engrossed from first page to last.â âPublishers Weekly, Starred
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âCurtis 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.â âVoice of Youth Advocates, Starred
