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Penguin Readers Level 4: Bud, Not Buddy (ELT Graded Reader)
  • Published: 16 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241589021
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $22.99

Penguin Readers Level 4: Bud, Not Buddy (ELT Graded Reader)

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Bud, Not Buddy, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Bud Caldwell is an 11-year old boy who goes to live in a horrible foster home. After Bud escapes, he decides to find his father. Bud's adventures take him across the United States of America during the Great Depression, a time when many people were very poor. Will Bud find a home and a family?
  • Published: 16 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241589021
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and paperback. His most recent novels for Random House include The Mighty Miss Malone, Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, and Bucking the Sarge.
Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer, and lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario.
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Also by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Journey of Little Charlie
The Madman of Piney Woods
The Mighty Miss Malone
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
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