Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Title: Bud, Not Buddy
Publisher: Random House
Date: 1999
Reading Level: 9+
Number of Pages: 243
Title: Bud, Not Buddy
Publisher: Random House
Date: 1999
Reading Level: 9+
Number of Pages: 243
Genre: Fiction
Summary of plot: Bud has run away from his abusive foster family. He's sleeping outside and can't find enough to eat. There's nothing left to do but go find Herman E. Calloway, the man whose picture used to make Momma upset. That man has got to be Bud's father! Orphaned Bud, not Buddy, Caldwell carries a ratty suitcase full of all his possessions wherever he goes. There's the picture of his Momma as a little girl. There's Momma's old pouch, full of smooth rocks with strange coded messages written on them. But the most important thing is a flyer advertising "Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression."
Sure that this Herman E. Calloway is his father, Bud sets out to find him. But when Calloway turns out to be a grumpy old man, Miss Thomas, the Dusky Devastator's kind "vocal stylist," convinces him to give the ten-year-old a place to stay. Bud moves into the big house known as Grand Calloway Station and, with the help of Momma's rocks, soon discovers that Herman E. Calloway isn't his father at all--he's Bud's grandfather!
Readers Reaction: I loved the story of Bud and his adventures in trying to find his musican father. Really Great story.
Potential Problems: he tells a lot of lies, he get beat up by his foster brother and his foster parents lock him up in a shed, after he runs away he has to fend for himself.
Recommendation: People who love reading Historical Fiction
Summary of plot: Bud has run away from his abusive foster family. He's sleeping outside and can't find enough to eat. There's nothing left to do but go find Herman E. Calloway, the man whose picture used to make Momma upset. That man has got to be Bud's father! Orphaned Bud, not Buddy, Caldwell carries a ratty suitcase full of all his possessions wherever he goes. There's the picture of his Momma as a little girl. There's Momma's old pouch, full of smooth rocks with strange coded messages written on them. But the most important thing is a flyer advertising "Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression."
Sure that this Herman E. Calloway is his father, Bud sets out to find him. But when Calloway turns out to be a grumpy old man, Miss Thomas, the Dusky Devastator's kind "vocal stylist," convinces him to give the ten-year-old a place to stay. Bud moves into the big house known as Grand Calloway Station and, with the help of Momma's rocks, soon discovers that Herman E. Calloway isn't his father at all--he's Bud's grandfather!
Readers Reaction: I loved the story of Bud and his adventures in trying to find his musican father. Really Great story.
Potential Problems: he tells a lot of lies, he get beat up by his foster brother and his foster parents lock him up in a shed, after he runs away he has to fend for himself.
Recommendation: People who love reading Historical Fiction
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