Bud, Not Buddy
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 father--from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 , a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
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:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's 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!!!!!!
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.
"[A] powerfully felt novel." -- The New York Times
Runaway children -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Michigan -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Children's Books, 2001. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 594 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 399 KB).
John Newbery Medal, 2000.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2000.
Newbery Medal, 2000.
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