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  window.bookSummaryJSON = "<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 </b><b><i>The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963</i></b><b>, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.</b></p> <p>It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:</p> <ol> <li>He has his own suitcase full of special things.</li> <li>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>.</li> <li>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!!!!!!</li> </ol> <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> <p><b>An ALA Best Book for Young Adults</b></p> <p><b>An ALA Notable Children's Book</b></p> <p><b>An IRA Children's Book Award Winner</b></p> <p><b>Named to 14 State Award Lists</b></p> <p>\"The book is a gem, of value to all ages, not just the young people to whom it is aimed.\" (<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>)</p> <p>\"Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.\" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i> starred review)</p> <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 Advocates</i> starred review)</p>"; 
  