Me llamo Bud, no Buddy

Format:

Book

Title:

Me llamo Bud, no Buddy

Uniform Title:

Bud, not Buddy. Spanish

Author:

Curtis, Christopher Paul author

ISBN:

9781632456397

9780606399326

Publication:

Lyndhurst, NJ : Lectorum Publications, Inc., [2016]

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 20 cm

Summary:

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.

Subject(s):

Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.

Runaways -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.

Spanish language materials.

Genre:

Spanish language materials.

Prófugos -- Novela juvenil.

Afronorteamericanos -- Novela juvenil.

Crisis económicas -- Novela juvenil.

Added Author:

Jiménez Rioja, Alberto

Holds:

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Summary

Bud does not want to return to the orphanage after his disastrous night at the Amos's house; therefore, he decides to go in search of the band leader whom he believes to be the father he has never known. Readers will find this heart-warming Depression era story irresistible

Author Notes

Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an assembly line hanging car doors.

His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

(Bowker Author Biography)