Bud, not Buddy /
Christopher Paul Curtis.
- New York : Scholastic, 2002, c1999.
- viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Newbery Medal, 2000.
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Runaway children Musicians African American jazz musicians Depressions Newbery Medal. African Americans