Bud, Not Buddy

Welcome to the Reed Middle School Grade 6 Webquest Quarterly. Bud, Not Buddy is the story of a ten-year-old boy named Bud Caldwell and his quest to find his father during the Great Depression. The book opens in 1936, four years after Bud's mother's death. The story begins in Flint, Michigan, at “the Home,” where Bud and other orphaned children wait to be placed into foster care.

The genre of this story is Historical Fiction. Your goal today is to research facts related to the setting of this story to understand the choices made by the author, Christopher Paul Curtis. Please click to the next page to see an overview of what you will be doing.