Bud, Not Buddy
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but he's on a mission. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression! Bud's got an idea that those posters will lead to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him.
Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression.
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After reading the short description of the book and looking at the cover, comment below about your thoughts before reading the book. What have you learned about the Great Depression so far that you see is similar with this book?
ReplyDeleteI think it is going to be very interesting, and fun!The cover looks interesting and makes me want to read it. I know people say,"don't judge a book by its cover." But I think it helps. It looks like a good book!
DeleteI think that it sounds very exciting, and a good reading book. I also think that it will be sad at some parts of the book, and will be very exciting. Evan tho the cover of the book isn't interesting it sounds good.
DeleteI think it looks really interesting and I assume that it is going to be about the boy on the cover. Well the great depression was a really tough time for America that I know. So this book looks like, from the cover, that it might be going on during the great depression from the looks of what he is wearing.
DeleteI think that this book will be sad because it was during the Great Depression and the boy on the front cover looks depressed because it was during the Great Depression. I feel like this book will be a fun one. The Great Depression was a very tough time for the U.S and was also very threatening to the people living at that time.
DeleteI agree with Halle's response because the boy on the cover does look depressed. But I still think this book will be interesting. And yes the great depression was a very tough time for the U.S.
DeleteTotally agree with Halle that it is going to be a sad book, but talk more about your feelings on the book not the great depression.
DeleteAfter reading pages 1-8 what are your first thoughts about this book? Tell me about the characters you have met so far and the setting of the book.
ReplyDeleteSo the book takes place during the great depression.The main character is named Bud,and he is a orphan.He has a little friend named Jerry who lives at there foster house, they both find out there going to different foster homes. Bud is going to go to a boy that is a few years older than him,and Jerry is going some where with three girls.Bud told Jerry he would trade with him any day, because girls are nice and boys are not. So exited to read more!
DeleteAfter reading those few pages, I felt bad for him, that his mom died and he is an orphan on his own, and I noticed that he talks about this interesting news paper that I think we are going to learn more about. The characters so far are(the main character) Bud and this boy Jerry at this orphanage.
DeleteAt the beginning Bud and his friend Jerry were told they were going to a foster-home. At the end of the pages it was sad because Bud had a picture of who he thought was his father.
DeleteI agree with your response but I think you should add something about how Budd feels about going to a new house.
DeleteI agree with Colin. Because at the beginning they were nervous but sad at the same time. Bud had a flyer like Colin said that had a picture of what he thought was a dad.
DeleteMy first thoughts of the book were it was going to be interesting. But after reading pages1-8 I thought it was pretty sad how he would have to leave again. The last part of pages 1-8 he was helping his friend Jeffery to feel better cause he would have to go to a house with 3 girls.
ReplyDeleteBrody, I thought the same thing about how it was sad that Bud had no parents and that he was going to a foster home, I also thought that Bud thought Jerry was better off with the 3 girls than a 12 year old boy. I have one question, how do you think the rest of the book will be, will it be like this?
DeleteI've always wondered what is this boy like. Bud I believe is the boys name tell me more about him.
Deletemost people in the great depression lost there homes like Bud did when he lost his mother. The great depression was a very hard time for people and there families because most people lost there jobs, there money, and houses.
ReplyDeleteI think that the beginning of the book is kind of sad because bud has to go to a foster home and leave his fiends at the home. the people that I know of right now that are characters in the book are Bud and his friend Jerry. The setting of the book is at the home which is like a orphanage for kids without homes and Bud is living at one.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Avery's response and how the book is sad but I think you should add how he feels about going to a new house to live in.
DeleteTotally agree with Halle, need to talk more about feelings.
DeleteI agree with Avery about the sad beginning because he does leave his friends\friend. Yes I also agree with Avery again because the first chapter has only introduced Bud and his younger friend Jerry, and yes the setting is at an orphanage.
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DeleteI think that Bud is a little sad but maybe not because he has probably gone to different houses before but he might still get sad when it comes to leaving his friends.
Deleteafter reading those pages I thought that the book was interesting because bud was getting adopted since his mom died when he was young. he is 10 now and him and Jerry are both being adopted by people, but they both don't really think that they are going to like it at the home because Bud has to live with a 12 year old boy and he scared that he is going to get beat up. Jerry don't think he will like it because he is going to have to live 3 younger girls he thinks he wont like it because he will be the only boy. I cant wait to read more.
ReplyDeleteMy first thoughts about this book is that it was going to be a book I would enjoy reading because there are a lot of surprising things that happen what you would not expect to happen and it is sort of like a mystery and I love mysteries. Bud is the main character and another character is Jerry his younger friend they are both orphans and are being adopted. Bud got adopted by a a family with a son who is twelve. Bud does not think his relationship with this boy go well.
ReplyDeleteWhat conflicts is Bud going through. Think about internal conflicts he is having and external conflicts, (conflicts between other people).
ReplyDeleteHow do you think these conflicts shape him as a person?
Bud has a conflict with Jerry because they know each other because they were in the foster home together until they got adopted and then bud was sent back because of Toddy.
DeleteHe has a boy living with him named Todd and he is a bully, but as soon as his parents are there he says it was Buds fault. He also had to stay in the shed of the Amos witch was scary, also he got stung by hornets.
DeleteThe conflicts Bud is going through are not being treated very well like having to sleep in a shed. Some internal conflicts Bud is having is going through life with out good parents that want to help him. Some external conflicts Bud is having is with Todd and him shoving pencils up Buds nose and many more. I think these conflicts shape him as a person because since his mom is gone he is getting stronger by taking care of himself.
DeleteBud is going through a conflict with moving to a new foster home. Bud is also having conflict with the family in it, that are treating him really poorly. So Bud is having conflict with the new foster home and everyone living their. Bud is becoming a stronger person by being able to handle lot's of these conflicts.
DeleteI agree with Josie because he is going through being in a new house as a foster kid I think that you could add more things about how the new family is treating him and why they are treating him like that. I also think that you could add how it made him a stonger and how he handled the family when Todd was hurting him.
DeleteJosie, I think the same thing about moving to a new home that you don't know anyone there is a great conflict. I also agree that Bud is becoming a stronger person.
DeleteThe conflict is Bud and Tod's family. The conflicts is that Tod's mom doesn't believe Bud and blames him for everything that Tod starts.
DeleteI agree with Josie's response but I think you need to add more about Todd's mom and how you can tell that Todd is a only child because of the way he act's when his mom comes in and he fakes that he is hurt when Budd really is.
DeleteBud is being put in the shed for the night and in the morning he has to go back to the home. I think the conflicts shape him because he is a foster kid and doesn't really have real parents that care about him so these conflicts change him because he has to deal with things like this.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Avery because she talks about how hard it must be for Bud but also how he gets threw the hard times all by himself. Also all the conflicts he has with Toddy and his parents because if Toddy would not have pretended Bud was beating him up Bud would not have been in the shed and alone.So Toddy's actions got Bud stuck in the shed all night by himself.
DeleteI agree with Avery because if Todd wasn't beating Bud up, Bud wouldn't be stuck in the shed.
DeleteI agree with Avery about His conflicts because he does have to take charge and deal with everything by himself.
DeleteI agree With Avery too because she talks about how it's hard for Bud to live in a foster-home.
DeleteHe is going through a mental conflict whether or not to fight back to Todd. His external conflict is that he has to sleep in the shed outside, and whether or not to talk back to her after she let him into her house. These conflicts shape him as a person that can hold back anger.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Colin about the conflicts, but I think you could talk more about Todd.
DeleteI agree with your response but I think you should talk about what Todd did to make Budd go sleep in the shed by himself.
DeleteI'll fix that thanks for the advice Halle.
DeleteI agree with Colin but I think you should add things like how Bud felt about going to sleep in the shed
DeleteI agree with Colin because the conflict gets rough.
DeleteThe conflicts that Bud is going through is with Todd's parents and Todd. Todd's parents because whenever Todd's mom comes in Todd pretends that Bud is beating him when really Todd is beating bud up and Todd's mom believes Todd when Todd says he was being beat up by Bud. so the parents put Bud in the shed where no orphan has survived. The conflicts that he goes through shapes him as a person because in the text it says, " If I were any normal kid I would've busted out crying, but I stood there breathing hard.".
ReplyDeleteI agree withe Hope because the conflicts from Toddy's actions do shape Bud as a person but I think she should talk more about how they shape him and what he is going through.
DeleteGive a great description of the food line. What happens when he gets there? Does he get it and how?
ReplyDeleteWhy does the family do what they did?
The food line is a long line for homeless people to get food and if you are one minute late you don't get food.Bud goes to the food line and he does not get there in time, then there was a family who pretended that was his kid so he got food. They acted like it was there kid by smacking him. He got the food and was happy.
DeleteThe food line is where people who don't have money to buy food can go a get a free small meal. When bud gets to the food line it is to late and then he try's to explain but then the guy got mad. Then a family acted like Bud was part of the family and that he had to go get something. The family probably did that because they wanted to be kind. They also probably know what he was going through so they did that so they said that he was their child.
DeleteThe food line turned all the way around two corners then crossed over the street, finally to the end. Then right when he gets there a guy tells him that he is late and they already cut off the line. He ends up getting in by this family that pretends he is their's. The family might of done what they did because they maybe they felt bad.
DeleteThe food line was for the poor in the Great Depression and everyday in the morning they would take 100 people and give them food so that's why you wanted to be early it goes the same for dinner. When bud gets to the food line he is late so he almost doesn't get his food the only reason he did is because some nice couple pretends Bud is his son so he will to get a meal. The family does that ,because to be nice because they knew how Bud felt because they might have missed the food line once and they might have felt bad for Bud since he was all by himself.
DeleteThe food line was a long line of homeless people waiting for a free meal. When Bud gets to the food line, the person who lets people into the food line stopped him and said that it's to late because they stop letting people in at 7:00 and Bud got there at 7:01. Then a nice family let Bud in the food line by calling him their son so Bud got into the food line with that family.
DeleteThe food line was long and full of homeless people waiting for a free meal. When Bud got to the food line the line checker said no more room, but a family called him Clarence and let him in line with them, when he got in the kitchen he got his food.
ReplyDeleteI do agree , but you need to talk more about the fake family.
DeleteI agree with Colin but I think that you should add more about how the family acts like he is part of the family and why they act like he is part of him family
DeleteI agree with Siena and that Colin needs to talk more about the fake family.
DeleteThe food line was really long. When bud got there this linechecker told him to leave. When Bud was pushing the linechecker's temper the linechecker pulled out a thick black strap. A family came a long and protended to be his family. He did get the food because the family called Bud there son. I think they did that to be nice or to not see a kid to get whipped.
ReplyDeletethe food lines were kind of harsh because if it were to close at 9:30 and you had been waiting in line for hours, and you got first in line but it just turned 9:30 they wouldn't give you food. they were also good because some homeless and poor people would get a meal. Bud goes to the food line but a worker there said that he needed to get back in line with his parents but he doesn't have parents, so a family pretends to be Buds parents but they called him Clarence not Bud. the family did it to be nice because if the family didn't pretend to be Buds family Bud would have not gotten food till later that day or tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWhy are the rocks so important?
ReplyDeleteWhat do we find out about Bud and Mr. Callaway at the end?
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The rocks are important because those are what his mom has had forever. We find out that Bud might be Mr. Calloways grandson, because Mr. Calloways daughters name is Angela and Buds moms name is Angela too.
DeleteThe rocks are s important because Buds mom had the rocks forever. Also Mr.Calloway might be Buds grandpa because Mr.Calloways daughters name is Angela and so is Buds mom!!
DeleteThe rocks were very important to Bud, because his mom gave it to him. At the end of the chapter we found out Herman was Bud's grandpa. I was surprised that Bud's Mom keeper his flyers.
DeleteI agree with Halle but you need to talk more about the details
DeleteI agree with Josie and we both got the idea of the chapters we read
DeleteThe rocks are so important because they are from his mother and because he has had them forever. Bud finds out that none of the other band members believe that Bud is Mr.Calloway's son.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Hope but they don't really find out that they don't believe Bud but they find out that Herman is Bud's grandfather.
DeleteThe rocks are so important because Buds mom gave the rocks to him. I found out that Herman is Buds grandfather not father but I thought he was.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brody about the rocks and about Calloway because I gave that in my response too.
DeleteI agree with Brody because he talks about the rocks and how Bud's mom gave them to him.
DeleteThe rocks are so important because Calloway realizes in the end of his chapter that Bud's mom is Callaway's daughter. That is why the rocks are so important.
ReplyDeleteThe rocks are important to Bud because they are from his mother and he doesn't really have that much of stuff from his mother. In the end Bud and Mr. C find out that Mr.C might be Buds grandfather because Mr.C daughters name is Angela Janet and Bud's moms name is Angela Janet.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Depression was a terrible time for U.S history. My grandparents lived through it though. They were all farmers and dirt cheep poor. Whatever they raised they ate they had no choice. Their teeth were rotten and they had one shirt and one pair of pants. My grandparents bathed once a week and washed their clothes not to often. If you were to walk into one of their rooms you would see a burlap mattress and that's it. The size of their house was about the size of anyone's main floor. On that floor they has a kitchen,bathroom and two bedrooms. My other set of great grandparents had a job where they would cut and harvest wheat and hay. The Great Depression was a terrible time in the U.S history and I hope it never happens again.
ReplyDeleteI learned from my Grandpa that the Roethlers were hard workers and were jokers. They worked for there money, and were natural Athletes. My grandpa dropped out of college to run this parents farm because his parents died through a car accident. He also was in Vietnam War He was a machine gunner. After he came back he went back to college to be a teacher. My grandpa's parents taught him to be frugal to take a small amount of food and to never waste. My ancestors passed it down, and down. And we are known for these things.
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