Bud, Not Buddy

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

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 09/07/1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780385323062

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 29554 / Bud, Not Buddy


Award: 2001 Maine Student Book Award Second Place - Grades 4-8
Award: 2000 Newbery Medal Winner - Children's
Award: 2000 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee - Children's
Award: 2002 Bluebonnet Awards Nominee - Children's
Award: 2000 Bookseller's Choice Winner - Middle Readers
Award: 2000 Coretta Scott King Award Winner - Author
Award: 1999 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) Winner - Gold
Award: 2000 Blackboard Book of the Year Awards Winner - Children's
Award: 2002 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-8
Award: 2001 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Winner - Grades 6-8
Award: 2002 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee - Grades 3-5
Award: 2002 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee - Grades 6-8
Award: 2001 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Winner - Children's
Award: 2002 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
Award: 2002 Nene Award Winner - Children's Fiction
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award Honor Book - Children's Book
Award: 2002 William Allen White Childens Book Award Winner - Grades 6-8
Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award Winner - Young Adult
Award: 2002 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Honor Book - Young Readers