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Basic Documentation

Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
Use book wizard to help with the previous 2 areas


3. List awards

4. Does this book have a book trailer? If so, cut and paste the web address here.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Bud, Not Buddy


Book Title: Bud, Not Buddy


Author(s): Christopher Paul Curtis


Publisher: Yearling


Copyright Date: 1999


Genre: Historical Fiction Novel


Brief Annotation:


“It’s Bud, not Buddy.” Living by the advice of his dear mother who passed, Bud Caldwell refuses to be talked down to or belittled by any body. Even when he’s kicked around from foster home to foster home, and even when he’s told that he’ll never meet his father again, Bud is not discouraged. Bud has his own rule book - titled, Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. So, with suitcase in hand and just a few pamphlets his mother gave to him before she passed, Bud ventures through Michigan in search of his father. Though this story takes place during the Great Depression, the weakness that America was feeling did not deter Bud's spirit one bit.


Your Rating (1-5) and why:


5! Bud is only ten years old, but that doesn’t keep him from staying strong and keeping smart, even when everything around him doesn’t seem to make any sense. I think this would be a great book to use during themes about adventure, hope, harmony (both musical and spiritual), friendship, family and historical themes about the Great Depression and racism.


Readers who will like this book:


I think any child would like to read about a boy that makes his own rules. I also think this would be a fun read aloud to go along side any of the abovementioned themes.


Yopp & Yopp p. 62-66:


Literature Maps


Create a Literature map together, mapping out Bud’s journey and all of the characters he meets along the way. Also, include categories that will help strengthen the theme you are studying. For example, have the children look for examples of friendship, trust, luck, challenges, harmony (or lack there of), and how the Great Depression affected the characters in the story, etc.


Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:


Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you were an orphan?

If you had a chance, any chance at all, to find one of your parents, would you look for them? Even if weren’t 100% sure that they were even your parents at all?


1. Interest Level (age): 10


2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 5.2


3. Awards:


Newberry Award and the Coretta Scott King Award 2000


4. Book Trailer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_P0sThuLEo

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