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Loading... Bud, Not Buddy (1999)by Christopher Paul Curtis
![]() » 9 more No current Talk conversations about this book. Flint Author. ( ![]() Independent Reading Level: 4th Grade Awards/Honors: Newbery Medal This book would we good for intermediate and lower-level middle grade students. It would be good representation in the classroom as well as good for small reading groups. The book is about an orphaned African American boy who escapes a home he is put in and sets out to find his father who turns out to be his grandpa. This is a great book about an African American boy named Bud. He embarks on a journey to find a father that he never got to meet, and he has very little to help him find him! This is a great book to use in an ELA class when talking about different time periods and how literature fits into this. This book talks about the oppression and issues that Bud faced during his journey! This book would be good for intermediate aged students. This book is about a little boy named Bud who was orphaned at a young age because of the passing of his mother. He goes on a journey trying to find his dad and a sense of family. Is contained inHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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