Bud, Not Buddy

　　 本書榮獲2000美國紐伯瑞大獎 (The Newbery Medal for Best Children\’s Book)紐伯瑞大獎是由美國圖書館學會（American Library Association - ALA）的分支機構 -- 美國圖書館兒童服務學會(Association for Library Service to Children)於1922年創設的獎項。該獎項是為紀念十八世紀的英國書商，約翰‧紐伯瑞（John Newbery）而設置，得獎者必須是對美國兒童文學有傑出貢獻者，並以美國公民及永久居民為限，自1922年起每年頒發給前一年度最傑出的美國兒童圖書作者。http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

　　1936年對失去母親的Bud來說，似乎有些艱苦，但是他擁有一口特別的箱子、一套自己的生存法則，和一個關於從未謀面的父親的秘密…

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.

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times
School Library Journal
Publishers Weekly

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

＂Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.＂ --Publishers Weekly, Starred

＂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.＂ --Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred

Christopher Paul Curtis is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963.