TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,Christopher Paul TI - Bud, not Buddy SN - 9780553494105 (pbk.) U1 - [Fic] 22 PY - 2004///, c1999 CY - New York PB - Laurel-Leaf Books KW - Runaways KW - Juvenile fiction KW - African Americans KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - Fiction N1 - Originally published: Delacorte Press, 1999; Includes a readers guide at back of book; 950; Lexile N2 - 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 ER -