Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl

By Willo Davis Roberts

Book Overview

That's all Buddy wants -- a normal family. But with her mother dead, her father missing, and her brother on the road searching for him, Buddy has a hard time believing it will ever happen. Instead she's living with relatives she hardly knows who resent her for reasons she can't figure out. They think everything about her is strange, especially her name.
Buddy can't give up hope -- that her father is out there, somewhere, and that her brother will find him so they can be a family again. But until then can Buddy find some way to accept her new life? Or will she always feel different?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689851642
• ISBN13: 9780689851643
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great Read

This book is wonderfully written, engaging and mysterious! There are multiple mysteries to be solved, not the least of which, the mystery of growing up. With distinct characters and Buddy's confidence that things will work out, the pages kept turning, with me rooting for them all.

Great read

I read this book when I was 8, and I saw it on my shelf just a few weeks ago, and I remembered how good it was! The story is very powerful. I couldn't understand it fully at that age, but now I fully understand the hardships this girl had to go through. Kids young and old will enjoy this book... it's got a happy ending!

Buddy

This book is really good! It's about a girl named Amy-Kate(that likes to be called Buddy)and how she has to live with her aunt for a while because her dad went on a busisness trip and never came back. Her grandpa is blind and has a disease where he can't remember things. One dayhe gets lost and Buddy has a search party to try and find him. Buddys mom died and her aunt thinks that she stole a bunch of money. But she didn't. You'll have to read the book to find out where the money really went!