Pub Date: September 14, 2004
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0950
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to UP
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 6.80" L x 4.20" W ( 0.30 lbs) 288 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Action and Adventure | Social Themes | Runaways | Family | Parents | Boys and Men | African American and Black | General | Historical | United States 20th Century
Series: Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf)
Description: It's 1936 Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things; 2. He's the author of "Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"; 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his band of renown, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. Bud is sure those posters will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road, nothing can stop him, not hunger, not fear, not would-be vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
"From the Trade Paperback edition.