![]() In Chapter 2, the Amoses throw Bud into their shed for beating up Todd. This highly recommended title at the top of the list of books to be read again and again. In Christopher Paul Curtis childrens novel, Bud, Not Buddy, we could describe the protagonist, Bud, as being brave. "Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. He provides his own suitcase full of special things. ![]() "Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." ( Publishers Weekly starred review) Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy away from home, but Bud’s got a few things choosing him: 1. "The book is a gem, of value to all ages, not just the young people to whom it is aimed." ( The Christian Science Monitor) 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 and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!īud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. ![]() Bud is the protagonist and the story’s first-person narrator. The year is 1936 and the country is in the middle of the Great Depression. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Bud, Not Buddy In the beginning of Bud, Not Buddy, ten-year-old Bud Caldwell is standing in line for breakfast at the Home, which is an orphanage in Flint, MI.He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.He has his own suitcase full of special things.Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: 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, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
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