[bksvol-discuss] Re: Any sighted volunteers want to read a kids' book about racial issues in 1947?
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:28:18 -0800
Hi Cindy,
Nope. That was a book that Lori decided wasn't her cup of tea. A
different book entirely. Must be the day for being disinterested in books
that seemed interesting once upon a time.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Any sighted volunteers want to read a kids'
book about racial issues in 1947?
Is this the book that Gail said she'd proofread?
Cindy
--- mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
> I have just scanned a book that came from my
> library that I do not
> want to read. It needs a sighted proofreader with a
> copy of the book, as
> there are some handwritten letters in the book that
> will need to be typed
> in.
>
> The Book is" THE LEGEND Of BUDDY BUSH by Shelia P.
> Moses.
> I have cleaned up the preliminary pages, protected
> chapter breaks, gotten
> rid of extra tabs, spaces, and line breaks that
> don't belong. I didn't run
> a spell check as the book will be full of dialect
> and I know that will make
> it awful. Kurzweil's ranked spelling did give it a
> 98.7 rating with
> capitalized words ignored. Not bad.
>
> The material about the book from the jacket I'll
> paste below. If no
> one wants to take this one on, no big deal. After
> all, how upset can I be,
> if I don't have the gumption (How's that for
> dialect?) to read it myself.
>
> Thanks for any takers.
>
> I'll submit with a hold on it if any of you awesome
> sighted folks who can
> read handwriting is interested. Thanks!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
> [From The Back Cover]
>
> I remember like it was yesterday when this whole
> mess that forced Uncle
> Buddy to leave us started.....
> Sometimes when I think about what happened, I feel
> twelve again. That's how
> old I was in June of 1947.
> I'm telling you I can just relive it like it's
> happening now. Right now.
> -from THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH
>
> "THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH is wonderfully engaging."
> MORGAN FREEMAN, actor,
> director, producer
>
> "Moses captures the hard emotions of one memorable
> summer that resonates
> with family love, humor, unbridled prejudice, and
> loss."
> ANGELA JOHNSON, author of HEAVEN, winner of the
> Coretta Scott King Award
>
> "No one has written a story like this since Mark
> Twain's TOM SAWYER!'
> DICK GREGORY, activist, comedian, actor
>
> 'THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH is a must read, could
> smell the dirt as I read
> this wonderful novel."
> SHEILA FRAZIER, Black Entertainment Television
>
> ISBN 0-689-85839-6
>
> ISBN 13: 9780689858390
>
> [From The Front Flap]
>
> AGES 12 UP
>
> 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.
>
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