{"product_id":"bud-not-buddy","title":"Bud, Not Buddy","description":"viii, 245 pp. \"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could.\" So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--\"not Buddy\"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into \"busting slob with a real live girl.\" Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes","brand":"Delacorte Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39786388914246,"sku":"2321386","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2321386.jpg?v=1643699603","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/bud-not-buddy","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}