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Bud, Not Buddy

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Bud, Not Buddy

In this novel set during the depression, 10-year-old orphan Bud is tired of being passed from foster home to foster home. He decides to run away and find the man he believes to be his father, a jazz musician named Herman Calloway.

Reviewed by Shannon Maughan on September 7, 1999

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

  • Publication Date: September 7, 1999
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN-10: 0385323069
  • ISBN-13: 9780385323062