num_pages: 5
description: 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      
language: English
title: Bud, Not Buddy
titlecomplete: Bud, Not Buddy
genres: Fiction, Historical, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 108497
places: Flint, Michigan, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Children, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Grand Canyon Reader Award
category: Teen Book, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Junior, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Older Reader Category, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award
publisher: Listening Library