Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)

<p><b>The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father-from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of <i>The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963</i>, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.</b><br>  <br> It's 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:<br><br> 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.<br> 2. He's the author of <i>Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself</i>.<br> 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!<br>  <br> Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.<br>  <br>AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS<br> AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK<br>AN IRA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER<br> NAMED TO 14 STATE AWARD LISTS<br> <br> “The book is a gem, of value to all ages, not just the young people to whom it is aimed." -<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i><br>  <br> “Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." -<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred<br>  <br> “Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again." -<i>Voice of Youth Advocates</i>, Starred<br><br></p>