TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Christopher Paul
TI  - Bud, not Buddy
SN  - 0439221889
U1  - F CUR 
PY  - 2002///, c1999
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Runaways
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Black people
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
KW  - FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General
N1  - Interest Level

Grades 5 - 7
RL: 5.2
Lexile Measure®: 950L
DRA: 50
Guided Reading: T
Middle grade
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  -