BUD, NOT BUDDY
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Delacorte
ISBN: 0385323069
Age Level: Intermediate (Ages 8-10)

In this novel set during the depression, 10-year-old orphan Bud is tired of being passed from foster home to foster home. He decides to run away and find the man he believes to be his father, a jazz musician named Herman Calloway.

   --- Shannon Maughan

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