Description |
viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Indexed In: |
SLJ Sep 1999 |
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VOYA 2000 no. 1 |
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PW 08/09/1999 |
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BCCB Recommended |
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NYT Bk 11/21/1999 |
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Horn Bk Nov 1999 |
Summary |
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. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader RL 5.0 8.0 PCMS LAKE LARK |
Subject |
Runaway children -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Fiction.
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ISBN |
0385323069 |
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