Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
read by James Avery
by Christopher Paul Curtis
read by James Avery
Bud Caldwell, the main character, travels from Flint to Grand Rapids, giving readers a glimpse of the mid-western state in the late 1930s; he meets a homeless family and a labor organizer and experiences life as an orphaned youth and the racism of the time, such as laws that prohibited African Americans from owning land in many areas, the dangers facing black people, and racial segregation.
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