Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Christopher Paul Curtis

Nov 2001 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey 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.

“[A] powerfully felt novel.” —The New York Times

Ratings and reviews

i find the book bud not buddy very inspirational book the character bud lives in a foster home until he gets adopted by a rude and cruel foster parent todd amos is very selfish to bud and the parents lock bud in a dusty dingy shed once he finds a way to get out he goes to the library and he takes out one of his newspapers and looks at herman e Calloway and sees how long it takes to walk to the place where he thinks his father lives he finds his father but his father doesn't believe him the famous and musical band lets bud stay and bud learns to play a new instrument

whatever dont call him buddy or he will beat the crap out of you as you can tell by the title. he also gets a ticonderoga pencil shoved up his nose. read iceberg hermit instead

I have read it before, but I never got to complete it. It was a book I read at school but never got to finish. But I still knew it would be here. Better than reading a free sample on the nook tablet. The nook would have a good story but then the sample is done over. Good book, recommend it.

About the author

Christopher Paul Curtis is the author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, one of the most highly acclaimed first novels for young readers in recent years. It was singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and paperback.

Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Flint Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. Today he is a full-time writer.