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By Christopher Paul Curtis 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, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement . 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. BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times School Library Journal Publishers Weekly “[A] powerfully felt novel.” — The New York Times “Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.” — Publishers Weekly , Starred “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.” — Voice of Youth Advocates , Starred AWARDS • 2000 ALA Best Books for Young Adults winner • 2000 ALA Notable Children's Book winner • 2000 IRA Children's Book Award for Older Readers winner • 2000 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award winner • 2001 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award winner • 2003 New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award winner • 2000 Maine Student Book Award winner • 2000 Newbery Medal Winner winner • 2002 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award short-listed • 2001 Kentucky Bluegrass Master List winner • 2000 Coretta Scott King…