Introduction/General Information about the Book
Title: bud not buddy
Author:
Type of Book (fantasy, humor, science fiction, mystery, biography, non-fiction):

Main Character: Bud not Buddy.

Describe this character: this character is a boy that runs away from a foster home in search of his father.

The main character changes from: lying to truthful a by the end of the story.

The main character does the right thing when: He tells his dad who is really his granddad the truth.

I can identify with the character when: He is with his granddad and with the band mates.


Another Character

Another Character: Bugs.

Details: One of buds friends who also ran away from the foster home.

Another Character: Herman E. Calloway.

Details: the guy who bud thought was his dad but turns out to be his granddad.
Setting
Describe the time and place of the story: Late 1930 in Grand Rapids.


Comments about the setting (examples: setting makes story exciting, setting has an important effect on main character, setting is/is not exciting or new, setting increased my knowledge of something): Setting is really important in some books because it can tell you like what tome period and also tell you what it might be like back then too.

Theme
What is the author trying to say in this story? What is his lesson in life?
Is there a moral to this story?

This is a story about (courage? working hard? doing the right thing? greed? importance of friends? jealousy? love? caring? happiness? sadness?) courage, doing the right thing.

This book showed me/I learned from this story: this book showed me that no matter what happens someone will be there for you, and I learned from this book that what you think is true may be just a little wrong or just different.

State a problem in the story and how it was solved: Herman E. Callloway doesn’t like bud at all and then when he finds out who Bud’s mom is he starts to like and worry more about him.


Plot: The Action/Summary of What Happened in the Story
Summary of the story (list up to 6 events that happened in the story; keep them in order):

1. Bud gets into a foster home.

2. Bud goes and lives with the Amos’s

3. Bud gets into a fight with Todd Amos.

4. Bud has to sleep in the Amos shed.


5. Bud thinks that there are vampire bats above him and swings a bat at them and they r really only hornets.

6. When Bud is trying to keep the hornets away he scraps his hand on a fish head and that he thinks are door guards, and then he brakes the shed window goes and pours hot water on Todd Amos, hides there shot gun, gets his suit case, and then runs away from the Amos house.

Evaluation of the Book
What did you think of the book? It was really awesome and kind of sad

What did you like about the book? The parts where Bud got mad at Herman E. Collaway but never stopped thinking that he was his dad.

What didn’t you like about the book? That Herman E. Calloway was so mean to Bud.

Was the story confusing or hard to believe? It was a little of both but more confusing then hard to believe.

Was the story predictable (could you guess what was going to happen?) NO!!! this book is not at all predictable.

Was the story believable? YES!!

The ending was: The ending was really great because Herman E. Collaway found out about his daughter that had ran away from him when she was 12, and then he told Bud that he isn’t his dad he is his granddad.