Bud, not Buddy /
Christopher Paul Curtis.
- New York : Delacorte Press, [2002], c1999.
- viii, 245 p. : ill ; 20 cm.
- Yearling Newbery .
- Yearling Newbery. .
"Yearling books"--T.p. verso.
Newbery Medal/Honor. Wilson's Children. Wilson's Junior High School. Book Links (A.L.A.), June 2003. Christian Library, November 2004. Five Owls, November 1999. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2000. Pub Weekly, August 1999. School Library Journal starred, September 1999. Wilson's Children, June 2001. Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005.
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.