Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

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Marc Notes: First Dell Laurel-Leaf edition September 2004.--T.p. verso.;Includes questions for discussion.;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...

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Marc Notes:
First Dell Laurel-Leaf edition September 2004.--T.p. verso.;Includes questions for discussion.;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.;Newbery Medal, 2000;Booksellers' Choice, 2000;Coretta Scott King Award, 2000;Parents' Choice Award (Fall), 1999;Blackboard Book of the Year Awards, 2000;Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, 2001.

Biographical Note:
CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been made into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. He is also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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

Publisher Marketing:
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, 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.

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times
School Library Journal
Publishers Weekly

"[A] powerfully felt novel." -- The New York Times

"Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred

"Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again." -- Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
Pub Date: 2004-09-14
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction|Action & Adventure|Juvenile Fiction|Social Themes|Runaways|Juvenile Fiction|Family|Parents|Juvenile Fiction|Boys & Men|Juvenile Fiction|African American & Black|General|Juvenile Fiction|Historical|United States - 20th Century
Weight: 0.3 lbs
ISBN: 9780553494105
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780553494105