Bud, not Buddy

Type

Book

Authors

Curtis, Christopher Paul

ISBN 10

0385323069

ISBN 13

9780385323062

Tags

United States, Depressions, Newbery Medal, Runaways, Juvenile fiction, African Americans, Fiction

Description

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.

Biblio Notes

Notes:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 8.0

Newbery Medal, 2000.

Coretta Scott King Award, 2000

William Allen White Children's Book Award, Grades 6-8

edited hb 2015-06-16

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