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Loading... Bud, Not Buddy (1999)by Christopher Paul Curtis
A story about Bud, a foster kid trying to find his dad in Michigan. I thought this was a really good story and did a good job of showing some of the struggles that foster kids have to go through. I would love to use this book in my classroom, especially if I had foster kids in the class, so that the students can learn to appreciate what they have and understand what others have to go through. (  ) jstafiej | Jun 11, 2013 |  I think this was a good book, good for 3-5th grade boys. Brifost | May 21, 2013 | Woop, zoop, sloop.... great book for literature circles or a whole class read. Bud (not Buddy) shows determination and perseverance as he searches for his father. (  ) YvetteKolstad | May 10, 2013 | I thought this was a really good story and did a good job of showing some of the struggles that foster kids have to go through. I would love to use this book in my classroom, especially if I had foster kids in the class, so that the students can learn to appreciate what they have and understand what others have to go through. While I know this is not the situation for every foster student, sadly it is for some and it might explain a lot of behaviors of these kids. I laughed at Bud's list he had going throughout the book and it really showed the survival skills these kids have ingrained in them from a very early age. ( ) RachaelH17 | May 7, 2013 | Genre: Historical Fiction Critiques: This is a great historical fiction novel because it accurately portrays the time of the Great Depression through the language, relationships, roles, music, and hardships of the story. Furthermore, the book uses realistic events, characters, and settings to gain perspective of the Great Depression. For example, when Bud is staying in the cardboard camp for a night, it is a realistic representation of the actual Hoovervilles of the Great Depression. The book follows an intrugal setting because the time and place is specific and necessary to follow the storyline. The setting is crucial for the character development of Bud finding his family. Media: cdolan10 | Apr 16, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0553494104, Mass Market Paperback)"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:44:06 -0400) 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. |
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