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Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.Description: viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385323069
  • 9780385323062
  • 9781448774791
  • 1448774799
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2000.
  • Newbery Medal, 2000.
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Newbery | Black History Month (Kids) Fiction notes: Click to open in new window
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Curtis Christop Checked out 06/03/2024 33111008782845
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's Curtis Chr 2000 Checked out Newbery/Caldcott Award Winner 05/30/2024 33111003078728
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

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.

Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2000.

Newbery Medal, 2000.

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