The Legend of Buddy Bush

Zusatztext Sheila Frazier Black Entertainment Television The Legend of Buddy Bush is a must read. I could smell the dirt as I read this wonderful novel. Informationen zum Autor Poet, author, playwright, and producer Shelia P. Moses was raised the ninth of ten children on Rehobeth Road in Rich Square, North Carolina. She is the coauthor of Dick Gregory’s memoir, Callus on My Soul , as well as the award-winning author of several books for young readers: The Legend of Buddy Bush ; The Return of Buddy Bush ; I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott; and The Baptism . Shelia lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Klappentext In this National Book Award finalist! Pattie Mae's adored Uncle Buddy lands in a North Carolina jail in 1947 for a crime he didn't commit. Now Pattie Mae and her family journey from loss and rage to forgiveness and pride. McElderry Books. Chapter 1: Thursday Letters If you are reading this letter, you have found all my letters, all of my secrets. The secrets of Rehobeth Road and the secrets of Rich Square, North Carolina. Most of all, you know the truth about what happen to my uncle Goodwin "Buddy" Bush. Uncle Buddy wasn't really my uncle. He was what Grandpa called kinfolks on nobody's side. Just plain old kinfolks. Grandpa told me that Uncle Buddy had his own family a long time ago; a real ma and daddy. Blood kin! He was just staying with them while his folks Rosa Lee and Hersey worked in tobacco over in Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount ain't far, just north of the riverbank, about thirty-five miles from here. Grandpa said that Uncle Buddy's folks went to work one day and never made it back across that river. They were in some kind of accident in the tobacco barn and they both died on the same day. So my grandpa and grandma just kept Uncle Buddy and raised him like he was their own. He went North when he was sixteen. When he came back in 1942, he came home to us. I was seven years old. Blood kin or not there are few things about May 1, 1942, that I will ever forget. It was a Sunday when my uncle Buddy arrived. Ma let me stay home from church. My big sister and brother had to usher at church, so off they went. Me, I stayed home to lay eyes on him for the first time. His car was blue. Sky blue. A Cadillac. A new Cadillac. His suit was blue too. Dark blue. With pinstripes. Pinstripes like Grandpa's Sunday go to meeting suit. I remember standing there holding my breath. And my pee. I couldn't leave that front porch. The outhouse would just have to wait. Lord, I wouldn't have missed that first sight at my uncle for nothing on Rehobeth Road. A city man. He pulled that Cadillac right up to Grandpa's front door. I looked at his shiny shoes first. I could see my face in them. I smiled. My eyes went slowly up his legs. They looked so long. His jacket had one two three let's see six buttons. His shirt was white. His tie was a pinstripe like his suit. Then I saw the hat. I will never forget that hat. Yes, blue with a feather to the right. Only a city man could own a hat like that. Grandpa stood beside me. He never moved. I stepped to the right. Grandpa waited for Uncle Buddy to walk up to him. He did. "Welcome home, son." "It's good to be home, Daddy Braxton." They hugged. Grandpa looked over his shoulder at the Cadillac. "Nice car, boy." "Oh, it ain't much." Ma runs onto the front porch. "Ain't much! Bro, I ain't never seen a car this fancy, never." "Hey, sister." He smiled a big smile at Ma as she ran around his car. She rubbed it like it was a genie bottle. The...

List of contents

CONTENTS

1 Thursday Letters

2 Dancing White Ladies

3 The Strawberry Patch

4 The Walk

5 Catfish Friday

6 The Queen's Chair

7 What a Time

8 The Amen Corner

9 Pretty Lady

10 Cloud Heads

11 Yellow

12 The Chain Gang

13 The Trial

14 Back to Harlem

15 The Law

16 Have You Ever Seen Cotton Grow?

17 The Train

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

About the author

Shelia P. Moses

Product details

• Authors: Shelia P. Moses
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780689858390
• ISBN: 978-0-689-85839-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Coretta Scott King Honor - Aut; Coretta Scott King Honor - Aut
• Subject: Children's and young people's books