Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
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Title: Bud, Not Buddy
Genre: Young adult novel
Sub genre: Runaways/depression
Theme: juvenile Fiction
Primary and secondary characters: Bud, Calloway, Miss Thomas
Date: 1999
Award: Newberry Medal, Coretta Scott King Award
Publisher Company: Delacorte Press
Brief summary on how to use for students: The students will be able to use this book to understand and appreciate the novel and learn how the Great Depression was. They can also learn the various themes in the book.
Summary: Bud is a ten year old who is motherless and living in Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. After he was able to escape from a bad foster home, he sets out and is in search of the man he believes to be his father who is the renowned band leader H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. After finding him and showing Calloway the rocks of the concert dates his mother kept, he realizes that she was Calloway’s estranged daughter who ran away 11 years earlier.
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