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.

• ISBN: 9780439221887
• Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
• Published: 2002 , Scholastic Inc
• Themes: African Americans, Great Depression, jazz, Runaways
• Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Newbery, United States
• No. of pages: 243