The Legend of Buddy Bush
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In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0689858396
9780689858390
SUBJECTS
Race relations -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Family life -- North Carolina -- Fiction.
Sick -- Fiction.
Grandparents -- Fiction.
Rich Square (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Fiction.
North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.