Bud, Not Buddy

Flint, Michigan, 1936. Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell — Bud, not Buddy — is a motherless orphan on the run from a cruel foster home, with nothing but a battered suitcase of his dead mother’s keepsakes: a blanket, a photo, some rocks marked with strange writing, and a stack of flyers for a bandleader named Herman E. Calloway. Certain that Calloway must be his father, Bud sets out across Depression-era Michigan — dodging railroad guards, sharing a Hooverville’s stew, and trusting a Pullman porter in the dark — to find the family he aches for, and the surprising truth waiting in a box of rocks. Christopher Paul Curtis’s Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner (2000) is one of the great American stories of the Great Depression. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.