Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his fatherâfrom Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott KingâVirginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Itâs 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Budâs got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. Heâs the author of Bud Caldwellâs 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: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
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Budâs 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 himânot hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
â[A] powerfully felt novel.â âThe New York Times