The release date for the English version of 'Bud, Not Buddy' by
Christopher Paul Curtis is Sep 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In Flint, Michigan, it is 1936. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless youngster on the run and facing difficult circumstances, but he does have a few advantages:
He has unique items in his personal bag.
In addition to Bud Caldwell's Rules, he is the author of Things for Having a Funner Life and Becoming a Better Liar.
Although his mother never revealed his father's identity to him, she did leave him with a hint: fliers promoting Herman E. Calloway and his well-known band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!
Bud believes he can find his father by following the posters. Nothing can stop him once he makes the decision to go out and locate this mysterious man—not even Herman E. Calloway himself—not hunger, not fear, not vampires.