Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis is a Corretta Scott King Award Winner. Curtis is also the author of The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963 which also won him many awards. The author bases the book on a young orphan named Bud during the Great Depression. Bud's mother passed away when he was six years old and he is moved from foster home to foster home with no luck in finding anyone who really cares for him. Bud packs a suitcase with clues that he thinks will lead him to his father. He finally reaches the man that he believes to be his father only to find out how mean and scary the older man is. Bud soon discovers, along with the man he thinks to be his father, that he has stumbled upon his grandfather who did not even know that his mother had passed away (she had ran away from home as a teenager). Bud knows that after his grandfather has some time to heal that he will have a home with people who love him. This book is difficult to put down and sure to bring joy to the reader!
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