This highly recommended title at the top of the list of books to be read again and again. Following clues from the few possessions he carries that were his. He is a resourceful, intelligent, and optimistic African American boy who has spent the read analysis of Bud Caldwell Herman E. “Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. Bud, Not Buddy is the story of a young Black boys search for the father he has never met. Bud Caldwell, who is christened Sleepy LaBone towards the end of the story, is the protagonist of Bud, Not Buddy. “Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.” - Publishers Weekly, Starred “ powerfully felt novel.” - The New York Times ALTHOUGH BUD, NOT BLIDDY is fictional, many of the situations Bud encounters are based on events that. 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 and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!īud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Bud is so mesmerized by the bands music that he does not even hear Miss Thomas, Mr. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.ģ. Afro-American, Boy as main character, Family Conflicts and Relationships. He has his own suitcase full of special things.Ģ. LitPick Book Reviews reviewers opinion of Bud, Not Buddy review by Gwendolyn.

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:ġ. 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, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.

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