The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 1999
Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy 245 pp. Delacorte 9/99 ISBN 0-385-32306-9 15.95 g (Intermediate)
In a story that's as far-fetched as it is irresistible, and as classic as it is immediate, a deserving orphan boy finds a home. It's the Depression, and Bud (not Buddy) is ten and has been on his own since his mother died when he was six. In and out of the Flint, Michigan, children's home and foster homes ever since, Bud decides to take off and find his father after a particularly terrible, though riotously recounted, evening with his latest foster family. Helped only by a few clues his m...
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