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.
Details
ISBN: 0553494104 (pbk.)
Physical Description:viii, 243, 18 p. ; 18 cm.print
Edition:1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed.
Publisher:New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2004.
General Note: Newbery Medal for Children's Fiction, 2000.Coretta Scott King Award for Author, 2000"Readers circle"--Cover.Includes a reading group discussion guide.Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, c1999.