Which author won the 2000 Newbery Medal for 'Bud, Not Buddy'?

Which author won the 2000 Newbery Medal for Bud, Not Buddy? Christopher Paul Curtis won the 2000 Newbery Medal for Bud, Not Buddy.

The novel follows ten-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Carrying a suitcase of belongings and a collection of rules for survival, Bud sets out to find the man he believes is his father, a jazz musician named Herman E. Calloway.

Curtis drew on African American history, Depression-era life, and the importance of music and community. The book’s humor and first-person voice balance Bud’s difficult circumstances while showing his resourcefulness and growing understanding of family.

The 2000 award refers to the Newbery cycle, although the book was published in 1999. Readers sometimes confuse it with Holes, the 1999 winner, or with Curtis’s later Newbery Honor book The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, recognized in 1996.