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.
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Product details
Publisher : Yearling; Trade Paperback Edition (January 8, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0440413281
ISBN-13 : 978-0440413288
Reading age : 10 - 11 years, from customers
Lexile measure : 950L
Grade level : 5 - 6
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.18 x 0.7 x 7.62 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#7 in Children's 1900s American Historical Fiction
#89 in Children's Classics
#116 in Children's Action & Adventure Books (Books)
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