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.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963. New York: Delacorte, 1995.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the
Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are
drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the
summer of 1963. Newbery Honor Book, 1996.
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Biography
Gaines, Ann. Christopher Paul Curtis. Mitchell Lane, 2001. Ages 12
up
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Developed by:
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