Bud, Not Buddy最新章节_Christopher Paul Curtis著

This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Bud, not Buddy/Christopher Paul Curtis.

p. cm.

Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father—the renowned bandleader, H. E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

ISBN 978-0-385-32306-2 (trade) | ISBN 978-0-440-41328-8 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 978-0-553-49410-5 (mass pbk.) | ISBN 978-0-385-72995-6 (ebook)

[1. Runaways—Fiction. 2. Afro-Americans—Fiction. 3. Depressions—1929—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C94137 Bu 2005

[Fic]—dc21

LCCN 2006540189

Ebook ISBN 9780385729956

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