Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

As I noted a while ago, I recruited my sons to start reviewing the books they are reading to help add to the Harlequin Charity Challenge.  I thought it was a simple and painless way to contribute to a charity as well as change the beat around here every now and then.

This review is from my oldest - 12

whom I totally insulted by accidentally giving him the name of 10 initially.

Whoops. Got that changed pretty quick I can tell ya.  

BLURB:

It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:

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

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

3. 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 him–not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

FORMAT: Paperback

REVIEW:

This book is about a orphan who is trying to find his father. His mother died when he was still young. The only clue he has is a flier of a band his mother had. The person that he thought to be his father happen to be his grandfather. This book I would have to say is almost as good as Harry Potter, Eragon, and Pendragon. His mother ran away when she was only a child. This is one of the best books I have ever read.