<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> <p/> 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: <p/> 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 <p/> 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. <p/>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <br><i>The New York Times<br>School Library Journal<br>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/> " A] powerfully felt novel." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/> "Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred <p/> "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 Advocate