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All member reviews for Bud, Not Buddy

assaneopare
teen, 16 years old
 
I laughed
funny

CourtneyRheanne
teen, 17 years old
 
best book ever.
Bud not Buddy is my favorite book, and It always will be.I first read this book in fifth grade, and I am still reading it till this day(: I have read it about 6 times. and every time I love it more. So if your looking for a good book. read BUD NOT BUDDY. hes journey is real aspiring.

nerdgirl96
teen, 15 years old
 
definitly deserves its awards
I love this book! It has some sad parts but still manages to be funny some of the time. I really like Bud; he has such an interesting perspective on life. I enjoyed Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. One thing I really like about Christopher Paul Curtis is that he writes about African-Americans in the North, who you don't hear as much about as those in the South.

momandbro
teen, 17 years old
 
Bud Not Buddy
is about a kid on the lam

fifiearnest
kid, 12 years old
 
terribul for kids, cool for teens!
it is terribil. Bud gets locked up in a shed overnight, scared because of what his foster parents told him, "there's a blood stain on the floor from the last kid who was in there! And the one before that had a bug stuck in his ear and it didn't come out!" the foster parent really lock him in the dark shed all night! And when he tries to get out he finds they put dead fish heads on the door handle! and they tell him that there are vampire bats in the shed, Bud finds one. then he wacks it with a rake and it's really a hornet's nest all the hornets attack kim and then he finds a way out and has to fend for himself on the street! i don't like this book at all! oh, and it says an unpositave word!!!!

BestPicture1996
teen, 16 years old
 
One of my favorite books of all time
"Bud, Not Buddy" is (in my opinion) a fantastic tale about an orphan boy in the Depression era who's on a search for his father. It has colorful characters, twists, and plenty of emotion. I read it as an assignment for school, but bought it because I liked it so much.

benbrm
kid, 12 years old
 
Great
It is a great book even though I haven't read ALL of it. Sexual behavior is when someone dips someones hand in warm water while there sleeping and they "wet the bed"

undergurl
kid, 12 years old
 
Historical report!
This was a great book, I just read it because I had to pick a historical fiction book, it was a good book but just not my type I perfer mysteries. It is a good book overall.

ber10her
teen, 15 years old
 
read it
it is a good book and i think kids and parent should read it

KELVIN 52378
teen, 14 years old
 
bud not buddy
loveit

Momma Dukes
parent of 9 and 12 year old
 
Good Book for 9+
My son loved the book, because Bud was great character! He also enjoyed the storyline. Good Read!

deray2010
teen, 15 years old
 
bud not buddy
I like this book but in class wen my teacher reads it i go to sleep

austinlol
teen, 13 years old
 
good for grades 3 and up
i am a student at morgan fitzgarald middle school. My reading teacher, Mrs Krausse , suplied us all with the book Bud, Not Buddy, to read and then return to her. We had this tape of someone reading it, chapter by chapter. I LOVED it!!! So did my other classmates in 6th grade. i think that every school should do this. i not only teaches you about the grate depersion, there may be new vocabulary that your familly can talk about and the unbeleving curage of a boy so yong as 9. it's inspiering......

CaitlinMarie
kid, 12 years old
 
Bud not Buddy
it is a wonderful book and it teaches kids how tough life was back in the 1800's

MaggieBergeron
kid, 12 years old
 
okay
i think this book should only be read by older kids but over all it was not that bad .

real deal
kid, 11 years old
 
good book
good book it did involve bud holding a gun so dont read to kids who cant handle boks with guns in it but other than that awesome book. exciting funny everything needed to make a book amazng

lolalover13
kid, 12 years old
 
Bud,was dissapointing
I personally did not like this book, they never got to the point and the end was confusing.

Draclea Victoria7
kid, 12 years old
 
cool
ok