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Bud, Not Buddy

ISBN: 0553494104

Title: Bud, Not Buddy

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

KDL Description:

NEWBERY J CURTIS

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.

Amazon Description:

It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and when 10-year-old Bud decides to hit the road to find his father, nothing can stop him.


From the Trade Paperback edition.