Bud, not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis

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, 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.

"[A] powerfully felt novel." -The New York Times