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. Teacher''s Guide available. A Newbery Medal Winner/Coretta Scott King Award Winner. Reprint.
| Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
| Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc