# Bud, Not Buddy

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- Book: [Bud, Not Buddy](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-paul-curtis/bud-not-buddy) ([Bud, Not Buddy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-paul-curtis/bud-not-buddy.md))
- Authors: [Christopher Paul Curtis](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-paul-curtis)
- Publisher: Puffin
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-259-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bud is on a journey. He has hit the road with one idea in mind - he wants to discover his father. He's not got a lot to go on - just a flyer for a jazz band and his very own Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. Despite encounters with a car-driving vampire, a monster-infested woodshed and even a real live girl, Bud presses on towards a surprising discovery ...