# Another children's (?) book ID

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**Created:** [November 16, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-childrens-book-id/704791 "2014-11-16T19:22:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-childrens-book-id/704791/1 "2014-11-16T19:22:35Z")

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Second grade. The story involves a young refugee from Europe after WWII travelling across America. I don’t remember how he got to the U.S., nor where he was going He meets a character named ‘Dud’, and the teacher who was reading it to us always mispronounced it ‘Dude’. The other thing I remember is when he received something ‘for free’, and the character made a mental note that in American things gratis are ‘_for_ free’ instead of just ‘free’.