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Bud, Not Buddy

Winner of the Newbery Medal

by Christopher Paul Curtis

 

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 filled with his own important, secret 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. Bud’s momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!

Bud’s got an idea that those posters will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes ofjazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression. Once again Christopher Paul Curtis takes readers on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey.

 

* “A crackerjack read-aloud.”

—School Library Journal, Starred

 

* “A remarkable and disarming mix of comedy and pathos. . . . Bud’s journey, punctuated by Dickensian twists in plot and enlivened by a host of memorable personalities, will keep readers engrossed from first to last.”

—Publishers Weekly, Starred