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Bud, Not Buddy
By Curtis, Christopher Paul
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38532-306-2
- Publisher
- New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1999
Gr 4-7 When 10-year-old Bud Caldwell runs away from his new foster home, he realizes he has nowhere to go but to search for the father he has never known: a legendary jazz musician advertised on some old posters his deceased mother had kept. A friendly stranger picks him up on the road in the middle of the night and deposits him in Grand Rapids, MI, with Herman E. Calloway and his jazz band, but the man Bud was convinced was his father turns out to be old, cold, and cantankerous. Luckily, the b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
