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Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Youth Curtis Bud
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Christopher Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Runaway children--Michigan--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Runaway children.
- African Americans--Michigan--History--1877-1964--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions.
- Newbery Medal.
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- Runaways--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Depressions--1929--Fiction.
- Michigan.
- Genre:
- Coretta Scott King Award (author) Winner -- 2000.
- Newbery Medal Winner -- 2000.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 243, 18 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2004.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes a reading group discussion guide.
- Newbery Medal, 2000
- Coretta Scott King Award, Author, 2000
- An ALA Notable Children's Book (Middle readers), 2000
- An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- Winner of the IRA children's Book Award, Older Reader category.
- A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
- Winner of a Golden Kite Honor Plaque for fiction
- ISBN:
- 0553494104
- 9780553494105
- 9781448774791
- 1448774799
- OCLC:
- 56496319
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