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If you loved Bud, Not Buddy

Books like Bud, Not Buddy

If you loved Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

No. 2

A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

Richard Peck

No. 3

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

No. 4

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

No. 5

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

No. 6

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

No. 7

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo, Chris Sheban

No. 8

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

No. 9

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

No. 10

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

Mildred D. Taylor

No. 11

A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)

Richard Peck

No. 12

Frindle

Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick

No. 13

Holes (Holes, #1)

Louis Sachar, Louis Sachar

No. 14

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Joey Pigza, #1)

Jack Gantos

No. 15

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1)

Gennifer Choldenko

No. 16

The Midwife's Apprentice

Karen Cushman

No. 17

Rules

Cynthia Lord

No. 18

Grandfather's Journey

Allen Say

No. 19

The Giver (The Giver, #1)

Lois Lowry

No. 20

Shiloh (Shiloh, #1)

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

No. 21

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

No. 22

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

No. 23

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

No. 24

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen