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Abstract
Commercialism has taken over adolescent literature with shelves of books adorned with fanciful artwork. It is possible that young readers may choose their next read by how the book’s aesthetics appeal to them rather than the genre or story inside the book. Also, some teachers, or even schools, may be stuck using the same canon of books year after year, not realizing how the world around them has changed. This paper offers a new perspective for teachers to refresh the classroom with a story that could enlighten their young readers. Today’s classrooms are blended with many different skin colors and nationalities. This paper asks teachers to tear off the cover of a book and hand it to their students to read. That action will remove any visual introductions and spark curiosity. Lastly, families across America have suffered in dissimilar ways during the recession. The following article suggests that reading the bildungsroman, Bud, not Buddy, holds appeal for post-modern-day adolescents. It is a story of a young orphaned boy who is struggling during The Great Depression to find his long-lost father whom he had never met before. This paper is directed mostly towards educators and how they can introduce new reading material into their curriculum that addresses multiple genres and removes presupposed biases.