{"id":5684,"date":"2021-09-20T05:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/?post_type=product&p=5684"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:20:41","slug":"bud-not-buddy-9780553494105","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/product\/bud-not-buddy-9780553494105\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud, Not Buddy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father\u2014from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of\u00a0The Watsons Go To Birmingham\u20141963<\/em>, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud\u2019s got a few things going for him:<\/p>\n

1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
\n2. He\u2019s the author of\u00a0Bud Caldwell\u2019s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself<\/em>.
\n3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Bud\u2019s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him\u2014not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.<\/p>\n

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
\nThe New York Times
\nSchool Library Journal
\nPublishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] powerfully felt novel.\u201d \u2014The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWill keep readers engrossed from first page to last.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly<\/em>, Starred<\/p>\n

\u201cCurtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again.\u201d \u2014Voice of Youth Advocates<\/em>, Starred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
\nPublication date: 14 Sep 2004
\nPublisher: Laurel Leaf
\nFormat: Paperback | 288 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[102,79],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5684","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-award-winners-books","product_cat-young-children","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t