Uncover Bud, Not Buddy Audiobook4 Cassettes (Read 180 Audiobooks Stage A) Authored By Christopher Paul Curtis Categorized In Printable Format

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In Depressionera Flint, Michigan,yearold Bud Caldwell BUD, not Buddy is plucked from the “home” to go to a foster family.
This will be the third foster home hes been in, and hes not impressed, But he takes his worn, cardboard suitcase with his few but treasured possessions and tries to make the best of it.
Before he knows it, hes on the lam, determined to find his own way and sure that the things his Momma left him are clues to his fathers identity and whereabouts.


I love Bud, Hes imaginative, intelligent, resourceful, wellmannered, curious, and everhopeful, Once hes decided to find the man he is sure is his father, nothing will stop him.
He endures hunger and fear, but also comes across kindhearted men and women who help him though he isnt always forthcoming about his goal, and outright lies about his situation more than once.
Hes also quite the philosopher having compiled a list of Bud Caldwells Rules and Thing for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
Among my favorites: RuleIf a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Werent Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start, Cause Youre Already Running Late.


Curtis doesnt gloss over the difficulties faced by many during the Great Depression, giving the reader a history lesson on the conditions in Hoovervilles across America.
But he also shows that with determination, hard work, and compassion people survived the hardships and formed lasting bonds.
As an adult, I really appreciated the afterword wherein Curtis explains some of his own family history and suggests, no orders, the reader to “Go talk to Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, and other relatives and friends.
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James Avery is marvelous performing the audio book, Heck, I was scared when Bud was in the shed with the “vampires” and fishguards! And at the end, my eyes started that same “stingyeyed blinking” that afflicted Miss Thomas.

I have to say, for one of the newer Newbery winners I wasn't particularly impressed, It's funny, Mandy told me she thought it started off slow and became a little more interesting toward the end.
I had the opposite experienceafter the first few chapters I thought the story had great potential, I had high hopes, but for me the writing started to drag in the middle and fizzled out toward the end.
I thought the author could have done more to resolve the relationship between Bud and Herman,

"Most folks think you start to be a real adult when you're fifteen or sixteen years old, but that's not true, it really starts when you're around six.
It's at six that grown folks don't think you're a cute little kid anymore, they talk to you and

expect that you understand everything they mean.
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"Everything moved very, very fast when Momma was near, she was like a tornado, never resting, always looking around us, never standing still.
The only time stuff didn't blow around when she was near was when she'd squeeze my arms and tell me things over and over and over and over.
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"She would tell me every night before I went to sleep that no matter what happened I could sleep knowing that there had never been a little boy, anywhere, anytime, who was loved more than she loved me.
She told me that as long as I remembered that I'd be OK, "

"Yeah, he's puny, Good thing his legs don't touch when he walks 'cause if those two twigs got to rubbing against one another he'd have a fire going in no time.
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"Sounds like a case of diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain, "

"Some folks can look at you and tell if you're even thinking about slacking off, they'll add some work to you faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Some folks will find a excuse to strap you even if you're working as hard as you ever did in your life.
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"I think it's because he expects so much out of everybody, himself included, And when you set your standards so high, you get let down a lot, "

"Deza Malone was right, I was carrying Momma inside me and there wasn't anyone or anything that could take away from that or add to it either.
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When I tell you the end had my chest HURTING!! Excellent middle grade skewing older story, its sitting betweenorfor me.

Christopher Paul Curtis is one of those classic childrens lit authors, I did have a hard time being convinced that Bud wasyears old in the front half of the book, but his decisions later made him more believable.
I loved the literal found family story in this, it melted part of my freezer burned heart : Dnf at around.


It's not that book wasn't good, The writing was fun to read, the main character Bud not Buddy was adorable and his determination to make his life better was so uplifting.


But I just kept it under my bed for so long that I'm no longer interested in finishing it.
That, and it was overdue at my library so I had to return it today,

So I doubt I'll be reviewing this properly, Looks like I'm just as lazy trying to type words to describe this book now as I was reading the book.


I won't be rating this because had I actually finished it I might have loved it.
. . but I guess I'll never know, I don't reread books I DNF, It's, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and tenyearold Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:

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He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things,

. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.


. 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 this mystery man, nothing can stop himnot hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E.
Calloway himself. I have been meaning to read this for years, in my quest to read all the Newbery books, but I haven't super been in the mood for it until now.
When I kind of had to be in the mood for it, because my daughter brought it home to read for Battle of the Books, and then the schools shut down and here we were with a copy! And then the school scheduled us to bring back any books or school materials this week, and I thought, Welp, if not now, when

I was pleasantly surprised: one of the reasons I've put this off is because I thought it looked too sad.
An orphan during the Depression Not exactly a feel good story, usually, But Bud has such a clear voice, and I liked the fact that this was sort of a fairy tale.
It has a happy ending, there are kind people who help him, rather than him stumbling repeatedly into trouble.
And for extra bonus points: two of the characters are based on Curtis' grandfather's, with photos and an author's note at the end, which I always love.
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