Understanding Buddy

by Marc Kornblatt

Everyone in Sam Keeperman's fifth-grade class thinks the new boy, Buddy White, is strange. Buddy won't talk, or smile, or even pick up a pencil, and he walks all hunched over, like someone caught in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068983215X
• ISBN13: 9780689832154
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Understanding Buddy

I think that ~Uderstanding Buddy~ is great book because it can really happen to someone!! Buddy is all alone and Sam is caring enough to talk to him when he comes to Sam's school. Sam asks him about his likes and dislikes. Sam feels like he needs to talk to Buddy about Buddy's mom because if you keep your feelings inside to long you can like explode!! It is great that Sam and Buddy start to talk to each other at the it is a awesome book about a kid solving problems. You have to READ it!!

Touching Story

I liked this book. It's a very touching story.It will help young people learn to put themselves in another person's shoes and be compassionate.

A moving story of sadness and struggle � and friendship

New boy Buddy White is strange: he won't talk, smile, or interact with them; yet only Sam knows that the new boy's mother was killed in a car accident three months earlier. When Sam tries to defend Buddy without revealing his secret, he finds himself in trouble with friends who fail to understand either boy. A moving story of sadness and struggle ? and friendship.

A wonderful book

My kids absolutely loved this book. They insisted that they bring it to class so that the teacher could read it. It is touching, warm and very well written. I recommend this to parents of all children ages 8-13.