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Bud Not Buddy Book Report

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Bud not Buddy is a historical fiction book about a boy who lived in Flint, Michigan and his mother died 6 years ago, and she left signs of who his father was the signs she left bud keeps in his suitcase.Buds mother signs were that his father was Herman E. Calloway, he was a famous musician.he had no mom or father that left him to be an Orphan. Since he was an orphan he went to a foster home. The home he was in was horrible he was with the amos's Mrs and Mr amos had a son named Toddy, he abused Bud and told lies to get Bud in trouble. Mr. and mrs. Amos locked Bud in a shed with angry hornets He was stung brutally, so he ran away from the Amos’s house he ran from Flint, Michigan to,Owosso, Michigan. Bud met a kind man named Lefty Lewis, he told

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