Novel Study

We will be reading two books this year as a whole class: Bud, Not Buddy and Tuck Everlasting. There will be reading assignments, group work, class discussions, projects, and activities to go along with each novel. While reading Bud, Not Buddy we talk a lot about figurative versus literal language. While reading Tuck Everlasting we discuss descriptive writing....along with many other English/life lessons.

It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud'a got a few things going for him:

1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.

2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.

3. 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.

Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.

But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tuck's secret-and whether or not to join them on their nerve-ending journey.