Bud, not Buddy /
Christopher Paul Curtis.
- New York : Yearling, [2005]
- viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
RL: 5.0. 010 & up.
Newbery Medal, 2000. Coretta Scott King Award, 2000.