| Description |
viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Lexile Level 950 |
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Guided Reading Level T |
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DRA Level 44-50 |
| 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. |
| Read.Level |
Grade Level 6-9 |
| Award |
Newbery Medal, 2000 |
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Newbery Award, 2000. |
| Juv. Subjects |
Runaways Fiction.
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African Americans Fiction.
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Depressions 1929 Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0385323069 |
| OCLC # |
40744296 |
| LCCN |
99010614 |
| Orig. Rec# |
TRUMANBAZ8028 |
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79111 |
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