
The author of the Newbery Honor winner, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, unfolds the story of an 8-year-old on a Depression-era trek to find the man he believes to be his father. With only his scrappiness and a poster that created a stir with his mother before she died, Bud (not Buddy) sets out from a foster home in Flint, Michigan, in search of a mysterious upright-bass player.