num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Legend of Buddy Bush
titlecomplete: The Legend of Buddy Bush
genres: Historical, Childrens, Teen, African American, Young Adult, Family, Middle Grade, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 189
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: Simon Pulse