Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis. - viii, 245 p. : ill ; 22 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, September 1999. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2000. Five Owls, November 1999. Book Links (A.L.A.), June 2003. Pub Weekly, August 1999. Christian Library, November 2004.

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.

5.0. 5-8. 950L Lexile. U Fountas.

Newbery Medal/Honor, 2000. Coretta Scott King Award, 2000.

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Runaways--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Runaways--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Depressions--Fiction.--1929
Newbery medal winner.
Great Depression, 1929-1939.--Juvenile fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.C94137 / Bu 1999

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