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Author:

Moses, Shelia P.

Title:

The legend of Buddy Bush / Shelia P. Moses.

Edition:

1st Simon Pulse ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

211 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family--North Carolina--Fiction.
Sick--Fiction.
Grandparents--Fiction.
Rich Square (N.C.)--Race relations--Fiction.
North Carolina--History--20th century--Fiction.

Contents:

Thursday letters -- Dancing white ladies -- Strawberry patch -- Walk -- Catfish friday -- Queen's chair -- What a time -- Amen corner -- Pretty lady -- Cloud heads -- Yellow -- Chain gang -- Trial -- Back to Harlem -- Law -- Have you ever seen cotton grow? -- Train -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

The day Uncle Goodwin "Buddy" Bush came from Harlem all the way back home to Rehobeth Road in Rich Square, North Carolina, is the day twelve-year-old Pattie Mae Sheals' life changes forever. Pattie Mae adores and admires Uncle Buddy -- he's tall and handsome and he doesn't believe in the country stuff most people believe in, like ghosts and stepping off the sidewalk to let white folks pass. He unsettles the dust and brings fresh ideas to Rehobeth Road. But when Buddy's deliberate inattention to the protocol of 1947 North Carolina lands him in jail for a crime he didn't commit, Pattie Mae and her family are suddenly set to journeying on the long, hard road that leads from loss and rage to forgiveness and pride.

ISBN:

1416907165 (pbk.)
9781416907169 (pbk.)
9781416907169 (pbk.) :
1416907165 (pbk.) :

Locations:

MEPA423 -- Union Public Library (Union)