Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
0385323069
9780385323062
Hardcover, 245pp, Fiction
Delacorte Press, 1999
Condition: used, very good with light edgewear, moderate bumping at the ends of the spine, and clean, tight pages. The dust jacket is in good condition with light edgewear and light scratching/rubbing on the covers. There are 2 award stickers on the front cover.
Synopsis: 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 won suitcase filled with his own important, secret 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 of 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 and find the mystery man, nothing can stop him, not hunger, not fear, not vampires, and even Herman E. Calloway himself.
