The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his fatherfrom Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.   Its 1936, in Flint, MichiganTimes may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Buds got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things. 2. Hes the author of Bud Caldwells Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3His 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!!!!!!   Buds 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 himnot hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman ECalloway himself.   BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Tim