Description |
viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Note |
Interest age level: 9-12. |
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Reading grade level: 5.0. |
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. |
Audience |
10-14. |
Note |
10-14. |
Audience |
5-9. |
Note |
5-9. |
Audience |
950 Lexile |
Note |
950 Lexile |
Audience |
950L Lexile |
Note |
950L Lexile |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 5 8 |
Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 5 8 |
Study Program |
Reading Counts 3-5 5.2 12 T |
Note |
Reading Counts 3-5 5.2 12 T |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 8 29554 |
Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 8 29554 |
Subject |
Runaways -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Local Subject |
BLUESTEM AWARD [2014 NOMINEE]
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ISBN |
0440413281 |
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9780440413288 |
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