Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000)

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Summary: Teaches Values to Kids
Review: This was one of the first chapter books I read with my six year-old son. It was a thoroughly engaging, sensitive and delightful book that explored many harsh realities. I recommend this book whole-heartedly to parents because it demonstrates the values of perseverance,kindness and humor.

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Summary: An Inspiration for All
Review: Bud, Not Buddy will inspire kids and adults to read novels by Christopher Paul Curtis, Dick King Smith, and other novel writers. I gave Bud, Not Buddy five stars because it inspires people. It is funny, sad, and it is about family. I hope more authors write novels like this one. Please read this wonderful book.

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Summary: Bud Not Buddy
Review: Bud Not Buddy is a wonderful story about a boy named Bud whose is on a quest. His mother died when he was 6, and he was sent to an orphanage. Bud's mom did leave him a clue as to who his father is. She left him an old flyer with "The Dusky Devastators of the Depression" on it. Watch as he sets off on an adventure to try and find his long lost father. A must read for ANYONE! That means you.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: This book is about a 10 year old boy named Bud. At the age of six his mother died and he was left in a foster home. As time went by with the clues that his mom had left him about his father,he decided to go in search of him. Through his journey he meets several people and faces many different obstacles. If you want to know more about the story, I strongly suggest you read it. I truly recommended it!

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Summary: Bud, Not Buddy was a great book!
Review: This book was really great, I really enjoyed it. It is about a young boy in the 1930's, who is on a mission to find his dad. He has many adventures trying to find his dad. I highly reccomend this book.

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Summary: tough little guy
Review: Bud, not Buddy, was such a good book. He was such a real kid to me,I found myself trying to think of kids to compare with him. I would like to read more books about him. I found the rules about life, and just the way he thought about things just delightful. I was on his side from the begining, and I cared what happened to him. I let the women at my job read Bud, not Buddy for their own pleasure reading even though it is a kids book.

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Summary: Cute book
Review: This book is an occasionally funny fairy tale-like story of an orphan that has run away from an abusive foster home to find his father. It is definitely inferior to recent Newbury winners like Holes, Walk Two Moons, The View from Saturday, The Giver, maniac Magee, or anything by Nancy Farmer. To me, the most frustrating part of the book is its unemotional, detached rendering of the boy's reminiscences of his mother. He does not appear to be angry or or sad or upset that she died; instead, he appears to be happy that she has passed on to a better life. Zero emotion. The mother's death does not affect her son at all. It made no sense to me. But that is typical of the cardboard characters in this book. Apart from that, the actual story is cute. With so many good books out there, I probably won't read it again.

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Summary: A Boy's Search for Family: Bud, Not Buddy
Review: Bud is a 10 year-old boy who has been living in an orphanage in Flint, Michigan. He decides to run away and find his birth father whom he thinks is Herman Calloway. The trip from Flint to Grand Rapids involves adventure, suspense, and drama. Although Herman Calloway's reception of Bud is less than sweet, the two of them learn that they are actually grandfather and grandson. It is a happy ending. I really enjoyed the different feelings I had when I read this award-winning book.

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Summary: A Review
Review: I like the part when buddy said if you tell a lie remeber the lie you said. Why did his dad leave? Why did buddy want to see his dad so bad? I give Bud not buddy five stars.

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Summary: A Depression-era Oliver Twist
Review: This book can really tug at your heartstrings. From being "imprisoned" by his foster family, to being helped in the food lines by a family of strangers, to the first kiss, to meeting Lefty Lewis, to finally meeting his "father", this story about the trials and tribulations of Bud-not-Buddy Caldwell is delightful. In addition, the author did a good job describing the sights and sounds of Depression-era United States. I think the book is truly worthy of the Newbery honor. (By the way, see if you don't see a bit of the Oliver Twist story in this story.)