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.
year: 2003
call number/section: 495.6
subjects: runaway children, fiction, african americans, great depression, 1929-1939, japanese language, historical fiction, michigan, fiction, historical fiction