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
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 09/07/1999
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780385323062
Audience: Ages 9-12

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


Award: Newbery Medal - Winner
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Bluebonnet Awards - Nominee
Award: Bookseller's Choice - Winner
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Award: Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) - Winner
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Blackboard Book of the Year Awards - Winner
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Winner
Award: Maine Student Book Award - Second Place
Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Winner
Award: Nene Award - Winner
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Honor Book
Award: William Allen White Childens Book Award - Winner
Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award - Winner
Award: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/09/1999 pg. 352
School Library Journal 09/01/1999 pg. 221
Booklist 09/01/1999 pg. 131
Time 10/04/1999 pg. 108
New York Times 11/21/1999 pg. 32
Time 01/31/2000 pg. 68
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 100
Ebony 04/01/2000 pg. 20
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2000 pg. 1340
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 77 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist 04/01/2000 pg. 1474
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2000 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2001 pg. 57
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 77 - Superior,Well Above Average
Library Journal 12/01/1999
Entertainment Weekly 11/14/2014 pg. 111

About the Author
CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. He won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been made into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie.

Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer. He lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario.