Title: Bud, Not BuddyAuthor: Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator: N/A
Genre: Historical Fiction,
Sub Genre: Chapter Book
Theme: African American, Bravery, Sadness, Family, Orphans
Characters: Bud Caldwell, Lefty Lewis, Herman C. Calloway, The Amoses
Awards: 2000 Newbery Medal Winner, Coretta Scott King Award
Publishing Date: 1999
Publishing Company: Delacorte Book for Young Readers
Summary: The story is about a young boy named Bud Caldwell and he is an orphan because he doesn't know who his father is but has an idea because of a flyer his mother left behind when she passed away. He also has an old bag of rocks that she left him when she passed. He has been passed around to several foster homes and the last one he goes to is the one that sets the whole story in motion. He is treated badly and decides to runaway to find his father. He them gets picked by a railroad worker named Lefty Lewis who decides to help him out. He takes him to his house and feeds him and cares for him and then takes him to a restaurant where the man on the flyer he has performs named, Herman C. Calloway. Herman denies being the boys father and then when Bud spots Herman doing the same thing to current rocks as is done to the ones bud has he confronts Herman. Herman then believes that Bud stole them from his house. After much talking and debate it is come to be known exactly who Herman is to Bud. It works out for the both of them in the end and they are family but what relation. I would use this book in my classroom as independent reading material for my students. It could also be read if we were studying a unit on African American literature. The book would help them to understand the bravery of the boy to go in search of his father, and especially when he had nobody.
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