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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 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 against a white woman that 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.
Shelia P. Moses tells a moving and lyrical story in The Legend of Buddy Bush that introduces the remarkable and memorable character of Pattie Mae Sheals -- a girl whose sense of humor, ability to get into "grown folks business," and determination to know the truth will endear her to readers everywhere.
- Sales Rank: #1291905 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-11-12
- Released on: 2013-11-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-In rural Rich Square, NC, the 1947 arrest, trial, escape, and eventual acquittal of African-American Buddy Bush rocked a community and sparked international interest. This fictionalized account is narrated by Pattie Mae, Buddy's 12-year-old niece, a perceptive "ease dropper" who discovers the depths of prejudice and the strength of family. The child adores Uncle Buddy, who has unexpectedly returned home from Harlem. Waiting one evening with his niece for his girlfriend to get off work, Buddy has a brief sidewalk encounter with a white woman who later accuses him of attempted rape. Although Pattie Mae witnesses the whole incident and knows that he is innocent, the efforts of her grandparents and single mother to bail him out of jail are futile. When seven armed Ku Klux Klansmen unlock his cell, planning to exercise their own brand of justice, Buddy escapes into the swamp where the white men fear to follow and heads north into legend. Pattie Mae's coming-of-age story re-creates the racial segregation and tension of a small Southern community, demonstrates the loyalty of family, and exposes the heartbreak of injustice. The child's voice is candid, reflective, humorous, dialectic, and full of colloquialisms and superstitions. Her family and neighbors are well-drawn, idiosyncratic characters bound together by their distrust of the white community. Readers will discover universal truths about fairness, dignity, and compassion, and gain an understanding of the older generation as Pattie Mae realizes that home is where the heart is.--Gerry Larson, Durham School of the Arts, NC
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From Booklist
Gr. 6-9. Although it's 1947, folks in Rich Square, North Carolina, still use the sun to tell time, work in the cotton fields, and step aside when a white person passes. Twelve-year-old Pattie Mae dreams of going north, inspired by her urbane uncle Buddy's condemnation of "post slaves stuff." Their shared indignation is grimly justified when Buddy offends a white woman for a breach of etiquette, and she falsely accuses him of attempted rape. As Pattie Mae bears witness to Buddy's dire situation, she also worries about her grandfather's deteriorating health and chafes under her mother's strictness. An endnote with photos explains that Moses blended her own family stories with those of Buddy, an actual historical figure. The result is not always smooth, and the device of relaying information through overheard snippets of "grown folks talk" wears a bit thin. But Patti Mae's first-person voice, steeped in the inflections of the South, rings true, and her observations richly evoke a time, place, and a resilient African American community. Jennifer Mattson
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Morgan Freeman, actor director, producer The Legend of Buddy Bush is wonderfully engaging.
Angela Johnson author of Heaven, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award Moses captures the hard emotions of one memorable summer that resonates with family love, humor, unbridled prejudice, and loss.
Dick Gregory, activist, comedian, actor No one has written a story like this since Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer!
Sheila Frazier Black Entertainment Television The Legend of Buddy Bush is a must read. I could smell the dirt as I read this wonderful novel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
From the pen of Moses
By E. R. Bird
I've often railed, in my various Amazon.com reviews, against simplistic children's books. For thousands of adults, children's books (to them) are meant to be straightforward tales of good and evil. The good guys are always good. The bad guys are very bad. And this is especially true for poorly written books that deal with race and racism in America. So it was with great trepidation that I picked up, "The Legend of Buddy Bush". Sure, it had won the coveted Coretta Scott King Award. Sure, it also garnered itself a hard-to-get National Book Award Honor. But I've read plenty of award winners that left a sour taste in my mouth. The fact that this was author Shelia P. Moses' first children's book was not encouraging. Most first time authors make all the usual mistakes. Fortunately for us, Ms. Moses is not most authors.
There are a lot of things in this world that Pattie Mae likes. She likes eating her grandma's plump strawberries straight from the garden when no one's looking. She likes sitting and talking with her grandfather for long periods of time. She likes getting letters from her elder sister in Harlem and dreaming of the day she can leave this poor North Carolina town. And she loves her Uncle Buddy. Buddy's not strictly related to her per say, but he's always been a part of her family, especially since he returned from living in New York City. Now Pattie Mae's grandpa is sick with a brain tumor and the girl really feels she deserves a nice trip into town with Buddy to watch a picture show. But when Buddy refuses to move off the pavement when a white woman passes him, the woman makes a big show of claiming that Buddy tried to make a pass at/rape her. Now Buddy's in the violent hands of the law and it's all Pattie Mae can do to see the two most important men in her life, her grandpa and her uncle, slip away from her for entirely different reasons.
The book bears a great deal of similarity to Mildred Taylor's chronicles of the Logan family. As with Taylor's books, the family in "The Legend of Buddy Bush" are black land holders. Also, they must deal with their white prejudiced neighbors at every turn. But this book stands on its own as well. For one thing, no one here is a perfect saint. Our heroine, Pattie Mae, is apt to silently insult and detest her female relations while placing the men in the family on their own separate pedestals. Her Uncle Buddy is a male chauvinist pig who obeys his father but doesn't think twice about ignoring his mother. Every person in this book is a well-rounded believable human being. They aren't perfect or always heroic. The men boss the women around and the women boss the men. In the end, however, these are people you end up caring for. So when tragedy comes to Uncle Buddy, you hate to watch it happen. You may not feel he's the wonderful guy that Pattie Mae thinks he is, but when she and her family collapse weeping to see him working on a chain gang outside their very home, you understand why.
In the back of the book, Moses gives full credit to the real Buddy Bush and his story. She includes pictures of the barn, house, and courthouse when this tale takes place. She shows us her real grandmother and grandfather and even includes a shot of Buddy Bush himself. She also tells the story of the real Buddy, complete with the elements that are like and unlike those retold in this tale. It gives it that little extra shove that brings the book from being okay to quite good.
Now I wouldn't go handing this book to your six or seven-year-old. Though the heroine is twelve there's plenty of breast squeezing and idle speculation on infidelity to make this a bit of an older reader. Still, if you know a mature child who wants a good jolt of historical fiction, aside from anything Mildred Taylor wrote (and much shorter at that) is this little tale. It's funny and quite sad, but not depressing in a pathological way. A title well worth reading.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
not well edited
By Booker Now
I was appalled by the poor editing of this book. The author is from the neighborhood where the story is set..rural North Carolina. The basic plot is fine, being about a black man in 1947 being accused of attempted rape by a white lady because he didn't get off the sidewalk when she passed by. This is supposed to be based on a true event where said black man is arrested, hauled out of jail by the Klan to be lynched, but escapes to the swamps and then to the North.
However the 12-year-old main character interejects her own stream of consciousness into the first person present tense story. These are the problems I had: She says when her mother gets mad at her, Mother hits her with a plastic spoon.
She says that if she isn't good, she doesn't get to go to grandmother's house to watch RV. She says Grandmother gets a phone and it's YELLOW, and that the phone number is 919-555-1919.
I remember the 50's pretty well and this story takes place before that. No one had a TV in 1947, much less a poor black family who had electricity but still had an outhouse in the back. No one had plastic spoons...they would have been wooden or maybe metal. Phones didn't come in color until the end of the 50's and then they cost more each month. And it was the 60's when prefixes came into play. Before that, it would have been KE 8-1919 or TR 7-5616.
So, the author is interjecting her own memories into this story, and the editor was too young to know the difference. This is too bad, because, while the children reading this may not notice any one of these anachronisms, having done the research on the time and place would have lent a lot of authenticity.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best books I have ever read.
By goinseric
"The Legend of Buddy Bush" is indeed one of the best books I have ever read. There are not enough good books for our children to read and this one is at the top of my list.
Pattie Mae is smart and a character that we all can relate to.
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