Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Title: Bud, Not Buddy
Illustrator: Ernie Norcia
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Family
Theme: Things sometimes happen for a reason.
Primary and secondary characters: Primary- Bud Caldwell, Secondary- Todd Amos, Herman E. Calloway, Lefty Lewis, and Miss Thomas
Award(s) date of publication: Newbery Award and Caldecott Award, 1999
Publishing Company: Delacorte Press
Brief Summary and how I would use this book with students: Bud, Not Buddy is a book about a boy named Bud Caldwell who has become an orphanage after the death of his mother. As he moves from one orphanage to another Bud has to endure many different challenging and dangerous situations. One in particular, is when he is sent to live with the Amos family. The Amos family has a son named Todd who is very abusive towards Bud and ends up forcing him to sleep outside where he gets stung by hornets. Bud then runs away and finally meets a man by the name of Herman E. Calloway who he soon starts to believe is his father. In the end, Bud discovers that Mr. Calloway is his father and they are reunited. I can use this book in my classroom to teach my students that even though sometimes life seems hard and that you may be going through rough situations in life things usually have a way of working themselves out. This topic teaches the students about having hope and determination.
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