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Bud, Not Buddy

Published on Feb 03, 2016

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Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis
Photo by Wahlander
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Christopher Paul Curtis

  • several award winning books
  • models characters on family members
  • influential black writer
  • (source: Random House)
Award winners include:
Watsons Go to Birmingham
Bud, Not Buddy

Famous black American writer.

He modeled several of his characters on family members, including a grandfather who played in the Negro Baseball League and another who was a famous bandleader during the Depression
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Genre

Historical Fiction
Set in 1936 in Michigan during the Great Depression.

Set in a real time but with events that are made up.
Photo by vale ♡
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Newbury Award &
Coretta Scott King Award Winner

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Main Characters

  • Bud
  • Herman E. Calloway
  • The band
Bud - 10 years old orphan, main character on a search to find his father

Herman E. Calloway - band leader in Michigan. Bud suspects this is his father based on band posters his mother left him before she died

The band - including Miss Thomas - help Bud learn the truth about his family.
Photo by weirdfishes/arpeggi ( Ashnaa Rabbani )
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PLOT

With nothing but his suitcase and his running list of "Rules and things for having a funner life and making a better liar out of yourself" - orphaned Bud uses the only clue his mother left him to try to find his father.
Photo by Eric Fischer
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Universal Themes

  • Home & Family
  • Overcoming Fear
  • The African American Experience
  • Growing Up in America
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Photo by Juan Lauriente
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