Bud, Not Buddy (2000 Newbery Medal Book)

【遠離暴戾，踏上尋父之路找尋曾經的安全感】

2000年紐伯瑞金獎

10歲的Bud坐在床上，看著他親生父親的模糊照片，這份安心的歸屬感是他每天起床的最大動力，接著，孤兒院工作人員來通知他打包好行李，準備前往他來到孤兒院後第三個願意收留他的寄養家庭，但迎接他的並不是安穩，而是恐懼。

進入寄養家庭後，Bud時常遭受寄養哥哥的毆打，寄養父母更將他反鎖在一間同時關著蜂巢的棚子裡。為了撐過這艱困的環境，他幫自己量身打造了一本生活準則，並條列了許多「如何欺騙自己過上更好且有趣的生活」清單，說是為了生活，其實更像為了生存。直到有天，他再一次的看著那張既熟悉又陌生的親生爸爸的照片，終於鼓起勇氣、下定決心要逃離寄養家庭，雖然知道外面的世界不一定安全，但與其繼續遭受痛苦的折磨對待，他仍想試著尋找著那份安心的歸屬感。

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, 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.