Curtis, Christopher Paul. <br/><br/>
Bud, not Buddy / 
by Christopher Paul Curtis. 
 - New York :  Delacorte Press,  1999. 
 - 243 p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-385-32306-9 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Runaways--Fiction<br/>Afro-Americans--Fiction<br/>Depressions--1929--Fiction