Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy

By Christopher Paul Curtis, Literature Connections, Holt McDougal

70 ratings 93 reviews 138 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 10 - 8U552179
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.
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
ISBN-13: 9780030654831
ISBN-10: 0030654831
Published on 1/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288

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Bud Not Buddy is a about a boy that goes to foster home. He kind of gets bullied by the family member. So he snicks out of the the peoples house and tries to find his "dad" in grand rapids. He escapes to try and find his father.He only knows him by a picture his mom used to carry around. He was really angry about it. He thinks he is very sure about this picture being his dad, but we will never know...

I love the end. The whole book is great.

Bud Not Buddy is a about a boy that goes to foster home and he kind of gets bullied by the family member. So he snicks out of the the peoples house and tries to find his "dad" in grand rapids.

This book is about a young boy who is trying to find his father /grandfather The thing Bud has to do just to get there

I am really not reading it but my teacher is reading it to the whole class. It is a great book. I hope we finish it soon!

This was an amazing book plus i'm reading one of his other books and it is so funny its called The Watsons go to Birmingham

O'My God I loved this book so much! It's about a boy named Bud who lives in a orphanage and is adopted by a family with an evil son.They have bad punishments for him (Because of there bad son).He escapes to try and find his father.He only knows him by a picture his mom used to carry around and was really angry about it.It's an amazing book.

This book was okay. It had a good beginning but the end was boring. There were some interesting parts but it needed more excitement and action.

There was a lot of heart and detail in this book. We liked how Bud believed in a lot of fictional things but he didn't have an education, so we understand why he had these ideas. We liked Bud's rules for becoming a better liar. We liked the band characters and all of their crazy names. Overall it was a good book, but the ending wasn't what we had expected.

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