Curtis, Christopher Paul. <br/><br/>
Bud, not Buddy / 
by Christopher Paul Curtis. 
 - New York, N.Y. :  Delacorte Press,  c1999. 
 - 243 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385323069 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99010614 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Runaways--Fiction.<br/>Afro-Americans--Fiction.<br/>Depressions,--Fiction.--1929