Title:  Buddy, Not Buddy
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Reviewer/Reporter:  Nicky P., age 12
Teacher: Sheila DeVary
SDEVARY@Fayette.k12.ky.us
 


         BOOM! Bud just slammed his suitcase out of the orphanage into his new house. Bud is a nice guy, he doesn’t have any parents. He has been to a lot of orphanages. He has his own rulebook. Mostly this setting is in an orphanage and at his fake family’s houses and the outside of the world. This story took back in the old days like the 1930’s. Bud has been in an orphanage almost all of his life.

Hey, how would you fell if you were in an orphanage and released you to an okay family and you escaped, and other things happened to you? Well that’s what’s happening in the story but, on his journey he gets lots of adventure. Hey, have you been to someone’s house before and don’t like it? In this story Bud has no choice but has to live there. Then he gets great big unhappy surprises toward his journey. His journey is pretty hard because, he didn’t eat nothing from in the morning to suppertime.

         I think this book was going to be the boring book I have ever read but, it turned out to be my favorite book I have ever read. If you like books with adventure and sneaking away and almost getting arrested. Well, if you like those stuff you will get to like this book. Buddy is not actually boring, but ha is adventurous. To me in the beginning of the book he was all “slow” and “uninteresting.”  

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