Summary
A motherless boy living in Michigan during the Great Depression escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--a legendary bandleader.Additional Information
Subjects |
Runaway children
-- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction. Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction. Runaways -- Fiction. |
Publisher | New York :Scholastic, Inc.,1999 |
Language |
English |
Awards |
Newbery Medal, 2000 Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2000 |
Description |
viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
ISBN | 9780439219570 0439219574 9780439219419 0439219418 9780439227537 0439227534 9780439402002 043940200X 9780439221887 0439221889 |
Other | Classic View |